One of the difficulties that students often encounter in writing is how to get started. Students often feel puzzled about how to generate good ideas on an essay topic. This paper explores several pre-writing activitie...One of the difficulties that students often encounter in writing is how to get started. Students often feel puzzled about how to generate good ideas on an essay topic. This paper explores several pre-writing activities as a solution to such a problem. Compared with the traditional teaching pattern, these effective ways have the following advantages: (1) They help students stimulate thoughts for getting started and make writing easier; (2) They help students remove the mental block and distraction that prevent ideas from coming out; (3) They help students write in a more motivating and stimulating way instead of pondering over an essay topic alone; (4) They help create a cooperative and enjoyable atmosphere in the writing class.展开更多
Given that speaking plays a fundamental role in writing, this paper reports on a one-year program of the training of student writers. This training program consists of three parts: a pre-training investigation over l...Given that speaking plays a fundamental role in writing, this paper reports on a one-year program of the training of student writers. This training program consists of three parts: a pre-training investigation over learners' needs and expectations, various forms of the pre-writing discussions over different stages of the program, and a post-training investigation to get the feedback from the learners.展开更多
This thesis is trying to analyze the pre-writing strategies used by Chinese college students in a timed examination.The purposes of this study is to identify the possible strategies the Chinese college students claime...This thesis is trying to analyze the pre-writing strategies used by Chinese college students in a timed examination.The purposes of this study is to identify the possible strategies the Chinese college students claimed they used in the pre-writing stage of the timed examination,find if differences exist between the pre-writing strategies employed by skilled writers and unskilled writers,and find which strategy best facilitate writing in a timed condition.展开更多
The study aims to find out the effects of writing strategy instruction on non-English major graduate students by means of an empirical study. The results of Kruskal-Wallis Test show no significant differences at the p...The study aims to find out the effects of writing strategy instruction on non-English major graduate students by means of an empirical study. The results of Kruskal-Wallis Test show no significant differences at the pre-test, but at the post-test, there are significant differences in terms of content and organization among three groups. These significant differences suggest that pre-writing strategy instruction help learners generate richer ideas and organize information logically in a Chinese EFL university context展开更多
文摘One of the difficulties that students often encounter in writing is how to get started. Students often feel puzzled about how to generate good ideas on an essay topic. This paper explores several pre-writing activities as a solution to such a problem. Compared with the traditional teaching pattern, these effective ways have the following advantages: (1) They help students stimulate thoughts for getting started and make writing easier; (2) They help students remove the mental block and distraction that prevent ideas from coming out; (3) They help students write in a more motivating and stimulating way instead of pondering over an essay topic alone; (4) They help create a cooperative and enjoyable atmosphere in the writing class.
文摘Given that speaking plays a fundamental role in writing, this paper reports on a one-year program of the training of student writers. This training program consists of three parts: a pre-training investigation over learners' needs and expectations, various forms of the pre-writing discussions over different stages of the program, and a post-training investigation to get the feedback from the learners.
文摘This thesis is trying to analyze the pre-writing strategies used by Chinese college students in a timed examination.The purposes of this study is to identify the possible strategies the Chinese college students claimed they used in the pre-writing stage of the timed examination,find if differences exist between the pre-writing strategies employed by skilled writers and unskilled writers,and find which strategy best facilitate writing in a timed condition.
文摘The study aims to find out the effects of writing strategy instruction on non-English major graduate students by means of an empirical study. The results of Kruskal-Wallis Test show no significant differences at the pre-test, but at the post-test, there are significant differences in terms of content and organization among three groups. These significant differences suggest that pre-writing strategy instruction help learners generate richer ideas and organize information logically in a Chinese EFL university context