2.2.2 Two Essential Forms of Community Language Learning 5

2.2.3 Researches on Community Language Learning and Its Application to English Writing in China and abroad 6

CHAPTER THREE  METHODOLOGY 7

3.1 Research Questions 7

3.2 Subjects 7

3.3 Instruments 7

3.3.1 Questionnaires 7

3.3.2 Writing Tests 8

3.4 The Process of the Experiment 8

3.4.1 Pre-test 8

3.4.2 Training 8

3.4.3 Post-test 10

3.5 Data Collection 10

CHAPTER FOUR  RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 11

4.1 Results and Discussion of the Questionnaires 11

4.1.1 Results and Discussion of Questionnaire I 11

4.1.2 Results and Discussion of Questionnaire II 13

4.2 Results and Discussion of the Writing Tests 15

4.3 Discussion 16

CHAPTER FIVE  CONCLUSION 17

5.1 Major Findings 17

5.2 Implications of the Study 18

5.3 Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research 18

REFERENCES 20

APPENDIX 1 21

APPENDIX 2 23

APPENDIX 3 24

APPENDIX 4 25

APPENDIX 5 26

CHAPTER ONE  INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study 

With the emergency of the reform of the New Curriculum, the New Curriculum Standards for the English Language Teaching in Junior High Schools set advanced requirements for the students’ comprehensive competence to use English. Writing and speaking serving as productive skills, play an increasingly significant part, so that teachers pay more attention to the teaching of English writing in junior high schools in China. In real classroom teaching, however, a lot of teachers spend a lot of time in correcting, marking and commenting on the students’ compositions, less aware of the importance of raising efficiency in the writing teaching. Besides, although students spend much time learning to write, their writing ability is still far from satisfactory. These problems are serious in the writing teaching classrooms, owing to the lack of better teaching method. 

This thesis covers a study concerning the improvement of the English writing teaching in junior high schools with the application of Community Language Learning. The current situation of the English writing teaching in junior high schools, the students’ obstacles in English writing and solutions to these problems will be discussed here. 

1.2 Significance of the Study 

Community Language Learning (CLL) absorbs in many theories of psychological counseling method so that it is widely used in many aspects of foreign language teaching, but there are little systematic researches on its application to the teaching of English writing in junior high schools. As has been proved by many studies, the Community Language Learning is highly effective in releasing students’ anxiety, decreasing the reliance on text and overcoming the lack of knowledge expression, and that the three functions of CLL are of instructing significance in helping students to overcome language obstacles. It can be used in the English writing teaching and greatly improve teachers’ teaching efficiency and students’ writing proficiency. Therefore, it is necessary to find a practical mode of teaching English writing in the classroom by integrating CLL into it.