Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The Background of Research
Foreign language teaching methods can be summarized as follows. (Hu Zhuanglin, 2017 and Shu Baimei, 2017) Firstly, the English teaching is based on grammar or translation exercises. That is the traditional approach. It‘s full of rules, explanations, definitions, etc. Most of learners feel boring and even have no interest in learning language. Secondly, as we know, teaching language usually focuses on listening and speaking in the classrooms, as far as they are concerned, the listening and speaking skills are considered very important. There are a lot of activities about listening and speaking in classrooms to improve learners‘ oral comprehension and spoken language. Thirdly, the four basic skills which are listening, speaking, reading and writing are equally important. Learning is a long process, these four skills have different emphasis in different time, like a baby learning to talk. In the beginning, the listening will be taken more time than the speaking. One or two years later, reading and writing will be taught. Teachers use English to explain everything for students if necessary they use a little Chinese. On account of lacking English resources and surroundings, Most of learners in our country have no opportunity to practice English with foreigners. Reading skill is sometimes regarded as a relatively important one to learn. To improve reading skills, it needs us to master grammar and vocabulary, so the Grammar-Translation Method is popular in some classrooms. No matter what method is adopted, writing-to-learn needs to get enough attention. The thesis emphasizes writing as a mode of learning (Emig, 1977), reports have shown that writing-to-learn can promote foreign language learning and teaching for college and high school students. However, there were few studies that refer to junior middle school students. This study attempts to apply writing-to-learn to English teaching in order to improve the present complexion of low efficiency and time consuming in junior high schools.
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1.2 The Aims of the Present Research
The aim of the thesis is to think of writing as a breakthrough. That is to say, the approach is a kind of learning, which are based on writing. There are many different teaching methods, there are not the same surroundings and characters of the students. Length-Approach is created by Wang Chuming, it lets students to write something as long as they can.，英语论文范文，英语论文题目 |
