Abstract:In recent years, the education in the primary school and the middle school focuses on developing students’ listening and speaking skills, which, however, pays little attention to the enhancement of students’ writing ability. Moreover, English examinations that adopt many objective items make teachers attach little importance to writing. The traditional product-oriented teaching approach makes the writing class incredibly boring and students may have a negative feeling of writing. Meanwhile, the process of improving writing skills may take a long time and need patience, which make students lose confidence in writing.

In order to help teachers to intervene timely and appropriately in the writing process, this paper sets the intervention of the teacher in the writing process as a study focus. What’s more, this paper analyses the main principles used by teachers when intervening by applying the theory of teachers’ intervention in the writing process. In addition, this paper also shows some specific methods about teachers’ intervention at different writing stages. At last, a sample teaching in narrative writing process is showed to illustrate how the teacher’s intervening is carried out in the process of writing.

Key words: teaching of writing in junior high school; teachers’ intervention; process-oriented teaching approach.

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Introduction-1

1. General Review of Junior High School Students’ English Writing-3

1.1 The concept and essential features of writing-3

1.1.1 The concept of writing-3

1.1.2 The essential features of writing-4

1.2 The status quo of junior high students’ English writing-4

1.3 The Writing Requirements in The National English Curriculum-6

2. Some Important Issues about the Intervention of the Teacher in the Writing Process-7

2.1The definition of teacher's intervention-7

2.2 Functions of teacher's intervention in the writing process-8

2.3 The Principles of Intervening-11

2.3.1 The students-centered principle-11

2.3.2 The process-oriented principle-12

2.3.3 The interactive principle-13

3. The Methods of Intervening in the Writing Process and a Sample Teaching-14

3.1 Methods-15

3.1.1 Pre-writing: Brainstorming-15

3.1.2 Drafting: asking questions as a reader-16

3.1.3 Revising: guiding with respondent principles-17

3.2 Sample teaching-18

Conclusion-20

Bibliography-21

Appendix-23

Acknowledgments-24