培养学生英语写作能力的新途径——基于电子学档形成性评价的过程写作法实证分析-a new way to cultivate students english writing ability - an empirical analysis of process writing method based on formative evaluation of electronic files.docxVIP

M.A. M.A. Thesis of Chongqing University Chapter One Introduction PAGE PAGE 10 Chapter One Introduction Research background As an important productive skill, English writing is gaining an increasing attention and emphasis, whose importance has been widely accepted in the field of college English teaching, for it shows not only a student’s mastery of vocabulary and grammar, but also his/her command of sentence structure, discourse organization and logic reasoning. But in the history of English teaching in China, English writing had not been paid enough attention to. As a result, students’ English writing ability is not satisfactory. In the traditional teaching of English writing, students’ compositions are usually scored by teachers as a final product. The procedures in English writing classes are as follows: teacher assigns writing task, teacher gives instruction, students practice writing, teacher gives scores to the compositions, teacher makes comments on the essays (Gao, 2006). In this approach, the planning, drafting, and reviewing of the writing process are ignored. The teacher’s task always centers upon the quality of language forms including spelling, grammar, punctuations rather than the soul of the composition and the quality of the content. As to students, the teacher’s stereotyped comments and feedbacks are really far from helpful and effective. Therefore, getting the teaching of English writing freed from the predicament is one of the urgencies to be dealt with in College English teaching reform. A review of the literature on teaching writing brought the advantages of process writing based on e-portfolio’s formative assessment into the author’s view. Nowadays, process writing has already been well received by many English teachers and educators. Based on communication theory, it focuses on the writing process rather than the final product. And it also emphasizes the expression of the writing content, and stresses the essential role of revision (Reyes,