The Application Of Retelling In Junior Middle School English Writing Instruction

This thesis is based on Language Input-output Theory and Constructive Learning Theory.The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of retelling method in improving junior middle school students' English writing ability.Applying retelling to junior middle school English class,the author intends to answer the following three research questions:(1)Can retelling help improve students' English writing ability?(2)Can retelling stimulate students' interest and passion for English writing?(3)What is the attitude of students to retelling? What kind of retelling methods and retelling materials do students like?This empirical study adopted pretest,post-test,and questionnaire survey.The test materials used for the pretest and post-test are writing parts in High School Entrance Examination,which are selected from “Test for High School Entrance Examination of Henan in 2015” and “Test for High School Entrance Examination of Henan in 2016”.The author randomly selected two classes from Grade 9 in Hebi Qibin Middle School as the subjects of this empirical study.The form of the test is that all students in the experimental class and the controlled class are required to write an essay of no less than 80 words with a total score of 15 points.Then the other three teachers of English score the students' essays according to the scoring criteria for senior high school writing.There were 128 students in all,and each class had 64 students.The first class(experimental class)received the retelling teaching method;the other one(controlled class)used traditional teaching method.After one semester,the author adopted questionnaire,pretest,and post-test to collect research data and used SPSS 25.0 to analyze the collected data.The results of the experiment indicate there is a difference between the controlled class and the experimental one.The results demonstrated that retelling has positive effects in improving junior middle school students' writing ability.In addition,in the implementation of the operation,the retelling process can closely combine retelling and daily text teaching,so the retelling method is suitable for middle school English teaching characteristics.