Collocation And Guided Writing In Senior Middle School

Guided writing in senior middle school is a special form of language productive activity, in which the students are often not fully aware of then- writing objectives, and lack of sufficient knowledge about collocation. As a result, they produce a lot of 'Chinese English' in then- writing. This thesis, from the perspective of the current corpus linguistics and cognitive theories, proposes a new writing teaching method, which has been proved to be effective in overcoming and avoiding 'Chinese English' in senior middle writing programs. The main features of the teaching method are: (1) helping the students understand the content of the writing activity, before designing their writing activities which are centered around collocation; (2) getting the students involved in each of the writing activities, through which they become familiar with English collocation and cultivate a feel for it so as to be successful in overcoming Chinese English and improve their writing ability.