衔接手段在高中英语写作教学中的应用

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Chapter One Introduction
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background
Writing is one of the essential means of communication. It is one of the basic skills that a language learner needs to grasp. However, in English learning, writing is the most difficult among the four skills of language learning, especially to people who are learning a foreign language. The Chinese students find it very difficult to construct an organized and coherent writing in English. When they do write a fluent text or a composition, difficulties at the context level occur.
In this thesis, the author first introduced the background, general description and significance of the present study. Then discussed the relationship between cohesion and coherence, and elaborated the Halliday and Hasans’ (1976) taxonomy of cohesive devices. After a full discussion on the theoretical basis of the present study, the hypothesis was put
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forward: the teaching of cohesive devices can help students improve their writing performance.
Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze the use of cohesive devices in compositions written by students of No.3 Middle School. In this study, Class 25---the experimental class (EC) and Class 15---the controlled class (CC) were taught the same content except the EC adding cohesion teaching. They also did almost the same amount of exercise. The two groups finished eight papers (including the pre-test and post-test). Moreover, the pre-test and post-test in EC and CC were rated by experienced teachers independently, who relied on the rating scale of writing in NMET.
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Writing is one of five basic language skills and is an indispensable part in the English teaching. In recent years, due to the issue of writing objectives in the new curriculum standards and score changes of the standard college entrance examination in writing, many senior English teachers realize the importance of English writing teaching.
Actually, there is a phenomenon existing: some teachers focus on accuracy at the sentence level but neglect the cohesion and coherence of the context. Students are trained to be familiar with words, structures and patterns and to be skillful in choosing them to make correct sentences. Although quite a number of students can produce sentences, what they make are just a bunch of sentences which are connected loosely. In order to improve students’ writing performance, a lot of efforts have been made in writing teaching in recent years. Linguists and educators have always been doing researches in writing, trying to reveal the rules of written language and the method of teaching writing. Since the birth of cohesion theory proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976), they have shown more interest and tried to integrate it into the teaching of writing. Chinese scholars have also touched this field and have been attempting to study EFL writing from the perspective of textual cohesion. Some of them even made some studies on the relationship of the use of cohesion devices and writing quality, such as Xu Weicheng(2000), Xu Yuchen（2000）, Zuo Gong (2000)and Zhang Meisuo （2000）. Unfortunately, compared with the studies abroad, the investigation on the application of cohesion devices into teaching in China came late. Moreover, very few researches have actually tried to teach cohesion in the classroom and help students use cohesion in their compositions.
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明显高于控制班。 研究结果证实了实验的假设，同时显示出对学生进行一定的衔接
手段教学能够促进其应用文写作成绩的提高。这是由于街接手段的运 用更加清晰地表达了作者的思想，增强了文章的连贯性，从而使得读 者更为容易、准确地把握、理解作者的意图。
总之，在高中英语写作教学中运用衔接手段，可以唤起学生对衔 接手段运用意识，可以使文章更加连贯，层次分明，促进英语写作水 平的提高。在文章最后，作者总结了实验，并对如何教授衔接给出了 建议，并说明了实验的局限。
关键词：衔接理论，衔接手段，高中英语写作
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ABSTRACT
Cohesion, a crucial notion in text linguistics, plays an important role in English texts. However, cohesion has been neglected in English writing teaching in China for along time. Researching in EFL writing reveals that lack of cohesion and coherence can be seen in most EFL students’ compositions. The suggestion of applying cohesion in English writing teaching is raised. However, few people ever did any empirical researches.