Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The background of the study
1.1.1 The importance of high school English written expression
高中英语书面表达的重要性
Written expression is a very important output skill, it can reflect the student’s ability of understanding.Axelrod,R.B & Cooper,C.R (1988:2-3) argued that “Writing also contributes uniquely to the way we learn.When we take notes during lectures or as we read, writing enables us to sort out the information and tohighlight what is important. Outlining or summarizing new information provides an overview of the subjectand also fosters close analysis of it. Thus, writing makes us more effective learners and critical thinkers”.Clark (1992), Mcdonough & Shaw (1993) said that “writing is an activity though which the writer thinks,expresses feelings, expresses his/her knowledge of the world, communicates his/her moods, achieveinterpersonal purposes”.Written expression also occupies a very important proportion of a variety of English exams in China;written expression scores will directly affect the students’ performance in English learning. For example,the total score of NMET (national matriculation English test) is 150 points, in which the written expressionscore is 30 points, taking 20 percentages of the total score.
书面表达是一个非常重要的输出技能，它可以反映学生的理解能力。阿克塞尔罗德，RB＆库珀，CR（1988:2-3）认为，“写作也作出了独特的贡献我们的学习方式。当我们在课堂记笔记，或当我们读，写作使，我们理清什么是重要的信息和tohighlight。概述或总结新信息的主体和提供了一个概述，它也促进了仔细略论。因此，英语论文范文，写作使我们更有效的学习者和重要的思想家“。克拉克（1992年），麦克多诺和肖（1993）说，”写作笔者认为虽然这是一个活动，表达感情，表示他/她对世界的认识，英语论文，沟通他/她的情绪，实现人际交往的目的。“书面表达也占据了非常重要的比例，在中国的各种英语考试书面表达分数将直接作用学生在英语学习中的表现。例如，高考英语（全国高考英语测试）的总成绩是150分，其中书面表达得分是30分，以20％的总成绩。
1.1.2 The requirements of teaching high school English written expression in China
The High School English Curriculum Standards regulated that “the objectives of high school Englishcurriculum is based on the goal of compulsory education’s five grades, with a total of four-level (six to nine)objective requirements. And the seventh level is required to be met in senior school.” For the teaching of written expression skills, The High School English Curriculum Standards providesas follows: “Teaching purpose is to express facts, views, feelings, imagination, exchange information, and develop standardized writing habits. The basic skills that the students should learn are: organizing ideas andmaterials, planning essay structure, outlining, drafting, organizing language, and phrasing, revising andusing punctuation and letter case correctly. Material Selection should be at the same level with the students’abilities and close to the students’ lives, should have specific topics, should be purposeful, funny andauthentic. The role of teachers should be to guide, inspire, demonstrate, discuss, encourage and evaluate.”
According to High School English Curriculum Standards (Experimental), “High school studentsshould format their own learning strategies which suit their learning characteristics, and adjust theirlearning strategies constantly according to their needs. …In teaching process, the teacher should also…Enable students to format communication strategies in the process of participating in communicativeactivities by designing variety of internal and external learning activities.”The High School English Curriculum Standards provides that:Teachers should establish a standard of English teaching system and rich curriculum resource syste
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