A Study On The Effects Of Production-oriented Approach On Junior High School Students’ Writing Performance

This research studies the application of Production-Oriented Approach in junior high school English classes through an teaching experiment.It aims to explore the impact of the Production-Oriented Approach on junior high school students’ writing performance and tries to answer the following two questions:(1)Does writing instruction guided by the Production-Oriented Approach affect junior high school students’ writing performance?(2)If there is an impact,what are its manifestations?This study was conducted in the author’s internship school.Based on the students’ pre-writing test scores,Class 1 Grade 7 was selected as the experimental class and Class 3 Grade 7 was selected as the control class.In the experimental class,the Production-Oriented Approach was adopted.In the control class,the traditional writing teaching model was used for writing instruction.The data were collected through test,questionnaire and interview and analyzed using SPSS 20.(1)Students’ writing performance and interest in writing improved after the Production-Oriented Approach was implemented.The average writing score of the experimental class before the experiment was 12.10,and the average writing score after the experiment was 14.25.The difference between the average scores before and after the experiment was 2.15.Further verification of students’ performance found that: the Sig.value of writing performance before and after the experiment is 0.000,which is less than 0.05,indicating a significant difference between the writing scores of the experimental class before and after the experiment.In terms of writing test sub-scores,the score of vocabulary improved from 3.69 to 4.15 before the experiment.The score of grammar improved from 3.00 to 3.67.The score of content improved from 2.97 to 3.46.The score of structure improved from 2.44 to 2.97.The improvement in grammar score was the most significant,followed by structure,content,and vocabulary.(2)The specific effects of the Production-Oriented Approach on students’ writing performance are mainly manifested in the following ways: linguistically,students’ word spelling errors were largely eliminated.Word writing was more standardized,and vocabulary use was richer and more varied.Students were able to meet the word count requirements of the writing test and took into account the key points required in the writing test.Students learned to add details to their writing in order to make it more specific and exhaustive.A clear improvement in structure was that students have learned to divide their writing,and most of their writings were presented in a clear three-paragraph format.They also learned how to use conjunctions in the text to make appropriate and reasonable transitions between sentences.Students also learned how to use topic sentences to make their essays clearer and more lucid.This study suggests that: teachers should choose input materials wisely when using the Production-Oriented Approach to teach writing;teachers should pay attention to students’ main position in learning and stimulate students’ interest;teachers should continuously improve their own teaching competence.