An Empirical Study Of Language Skills Integration In English Writing Teaching In Senior High School

With the continuous deepening of new curriculum reform,people pay more and more attention to English language skills.In the process of language skills training,although students' vocabulary is enlarged and the reading proficiency has greatly improved than before,the improvement of English writing ability is not obvious.Writing is still the most difficult skill for students to grasp in learning English.Therefore,it is significant for each English teacher to explore the ways of improving the students' English writing and foster their personal writing style in the current situation.The campaign of the whole language instruction was launched by Kenneths,Goodman in the United States,and spread to other countries rapidly.Many linguists began to explore how to use language skills integration into the teaching practice.In the 21 century,the experts at home and abroad tend to research the different models of language skills integration.Based on the Whole Language Theory and Cognitive Transfer Theory,this paper tries to find out ways of how to improve students writing skill by applying language skills integration in high school.According to Luo Xiaojie's reading,speaking and writing integration model “Three Sections and Seven Steps”,the author designs the comprehensive integrated language skills model.This thesis aims at addressing the following questions:1)Can language skills integration teaching approach improve students' writing scores significantly compared with the traditional teaching method in senior high school?2)Has students' attitude towards English writing changed after the implementation of language skills integration teaching model?3)Can language skills integration teaching approach improve students' interest and confidence in English writing?4)Is there any change in students' strategy use in the whole writing process after the experiment?Two parallel classes of senior middle school students from Pingshun Middle School took part in the experiment.Class 296 was assigned as the control class and Class 297 was assigned as the experimental class.At the beginning of the experiment,the author used the writing test of the final English exam paper last term as the pre-test and there was no significant difference between EC and CC in writing scores.Moreover,in the whole experimental process,the teaching time,textbook and teacher in two classes were the same.In the control class,the traditional teaching method was used to teach English writing and the language skills integration teaching model was applied to teach English writing in the experimental class.After a semester writing teaching,in order to find out whether there were obvious differences of the writing level in two classes,students in two classes took part in the same post-test.Meanwhile,the author also conducted a questionnaire before and after the experiment in the EC to investigate the change of students' performance in English writing.After analyzing the data,the author made the following conclusions.Firstly,the approach of language skills integration teaching is more effective than the traditional teaching method in the English writing teaching.After the experiment,the writing scores in EC have improved greatly.Secondly,after the implementing the language skills integration model in EC,students' attitude towards English writing has changed significantly.Most of students think that English writing is no longer difficult and more students think that the purpose of writing is not only for examination.Thirdly,students' interest and confidence in the EC has improved obviously compared with before.Lastly,students' strategy use has changed greatly in whole writing process after the experiment.Before the writing,students tend to do some related preparation and in process of writing more students take the whole discourse of the composition into consideration.After the writing,the ways of revision of draft have become various.However,due to some uncontrollable factors,such as the small number of subjects,the relatively short experimental time,and the author's limited capacity,etc.,the study has some limitations,so the further research can improve it.