非英语专业学生英语写作策略地研究.pdf

ABSTRACT English writing is extraordinary useful and valuable as a communication way. In recent years, many universities have laid more emphasis on English writing. Writing has a very important significance for English teaching. But research on the writing strategy of second language is still not enough in China. Therefore, by conducting a comprehensive questionnaire of writing strategies and individual interview, this thesis aims to explore the general situation of non-English majors writing strategies so as to give implications to the practical writing learning and teaching. The present study aims to answer the following questions: firstly, what are the characteristics of writing strategies employed by the college students of non-English majors? Secondly, what is the relationship between the subjects’ strategy use and their English writing proficiency? Finally, is there any difference in writing strategy between male and female students? The subjects were 98 juniors from non-English majors of a university in Jiangxi province. Of all these subjects, 50 were females and 48 were males. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed by SPSS and triangulated by individual interviews The findings of the study are as follows: 1).General speaking, the students employ writing strategies at a medium frequency level. Compensation strategies are most frequently used; metacognitive and cognitive strategies are the immediate follower and, socio-affective strategies are the least used ones. 2).Writing strategies are significantly positively correlated to proficiency (r=.486**0.005), which indicates that the writing strategies are of great significance. Students can use plan, attention, revising and socio-affective strategies to enhance writi