背诵—仿写法在英语写作教学中的作用-the function of recitation - imitation writing method in english writing teaching.docxVIP

Through 7 writing assignments, all the scores have been recorded for analysis. In G2, students only recited, and students in G3 only imitated, while in the normal group (G4), the traditional method of teaching writing was conducted.To investigate the effect of the “recitation-imitation” method, the students’ writing examination results of a pretest and a posttest were collected. All the collected data were analyzed with the statistical instruments from SPSS 11.5. In the end, a questionnaire was employed to survey the subjects’ attitudes and opinions about the “recitation-imitation” method. The analysis of the One-way ANOVA test results suggested that the “recitation-imitation” method had certain influences on English writing, for the scores of G1 were higher than those of the non-method group. Meanwhile, the scores of the recitation group were also higher than the natural group. At the same time, results of the questionnaire suggested that the method was well received by the students.Although this research has some limitation and insufficiency due to the limitations in sample size, class hours, the researcher’s ability and others, it still provides pedagogic implications for improving college English writing teaching for English majors of the Chinese EFL students. It is hoped that enough concern could be raised to improve the level of English writing.Key words: input hypothesis, output hypothesis, memory, the balanced activities approach, the “recitation-imitation” method, college English writingIIITABLE OF CONTENTS摘要 ...........................................................................................................................I CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1BACKGROUND 1A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY 2PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 3SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 3Academic significance 3Practical significance 4ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY 5CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW7CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS 7Input 7Output 7Recitation - imitation 7THEORY BACKGROUND 9Th