How to Improve Students’ Writing Ability.docVIP

I. Introduction 　　At present, the purpose of middle school English teaching is to improve students’ skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. However, the teachers and the students yield to the examinations, which result in many problems in English learning, particularly in English writing. The main causes of it are as follows: (1)Teachers and students think it’s not important to practice writing in junior one and junior two. They prefer tactics for the examination of entering schools of a higher grade. (2)Writing is not taught systematically to students, such as how to choose words, make sentences, organize paragraphs, conceive the whole essay and so on. 　　Because of the above reasons, some students can’t write English compositions well, and even they are in dread of writing. Consequently, very few students can use English to express their own ideas skillfully. In the long run, this causes the vicious circles. So the teachers should attach importance to the students writing in English teaching. It’s very necessary to give guidance on the students’ writing and it’s quite important for the students to practice writing more. 　　II. The relationship of the four skills 　　Nowadays, English writing becomes more and more important in the middle school English teaching. English listening, speaking, reading and writing are mutually related to each other and permeated by each other. Reading and listening are to comprehend others’ ideological expression. It’s a process from the external language to internal language. Speaking and writing are to express their own ideas with language. It’s a process from the internal language to external language. So writing ability is based on the ability of reading and listening. At the same time, the training of writing can go a step further for the improvement of reading and listening ability. In my opinion, to improve writing ability, it’s very important to improve other abilities. It’s meaningful for the students to train these fo