Reading-to-writing: an Effective Approach to Improving Students’ EFL Writing Ability in Senior High Schools
Abstract: EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is one of the four basic skills of English learning. However, EFL writing, as a highly complex productive activity, has always been a big problem to students in senior high schools. Most of the students may feel perplexed when confronting EFL writing and always get half the result with twice the effort. Luckily, reading-to-writing approach can effectively enlarge the students’ amount of vocabulary, promote their ability in using words and arranging sentences, enrich their writing materials, obtain writing skills and cultivate their sense of English language and composition structures. This thesis, through an analysis of the present situation of English writing in senior high schools and expositions of the nature of and the relationship between reading and writing, aims to prove the necessity and feasibility of reading-to-writing approach and put forward reading-to-writing approach in EFL writing practice. Adopting reading-to-writing approach in our EFL writing practice persistently, we will improve our EFL writing ability effectively.
Key Words: EFL reading and writing; reading-to-writing; writing ability; effective approach
1 Introduction
Nowadays, communication between different nations and cultures increases dramatically. English, as an international language, is becoming more and more important and is used more and more widely in our daily life. As Liu Ye (刘烨，2017) concludes that English as a foreign language has become a sure access to information of all sorts and an indispensable means of international communication. As a result, English learning fever sweeps through China in those years. Particularly, students in senior high schools are trying every effort to improve their English competence because they know that English is not only a compulsory course in University Entrance Examination but also a tool in future career.
At present, not a few senior high schools have adopted SEFC (Senior English for China) textbook as the teaching material. According to the New English Curriculum Standards for senior high schools, listening, speaking, reading and writing are four basic skills and requirements for the students. Reading and writing are the most important skills for students in senior high schools. Just as Xiong Jie (熊杰，2017) points out that both reading and writing are powerful and highly individual tools for thinking, learning and discovering and both perform the function of communication. Liu Ye (刘烨，英语毕业论文，2017) also says: “with the shift from the ability of manipulating the linguistic structure to the ability of using the language to communicate in written/spoken forms in English, EFL writing was considered as a tool for people to communicate in a real situation.” That is to say, EFL writing is vital to our individual development. As a matter of fact, EFL (English as a foreign language) writing has been applied more and more in our English study and future career. For instance, we need to write compositions in exams, to communicate or exchange information with our friends whose native language is English, to write applications for work or study abroad, etc..
However, we probably find that our EFL writing ability is not so encouraging and satisfactory though we have learned English for several years in primary and mid，英语论文 |
