Promoting Learning through Writing: The Concept and Practice of English "Long Write" Method

Author: Zheng Chao, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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Publish Date: 2004-09-30
Features: English learners can acquire a vivid and practical learning method in this book that helps them progress from proficiency to mastery. Professor Wang Chuoming, a leading expert in second language acquisition in China, revolutionized foreign language teaching concepts by pioneering the "Writing-to-Long" approach. Considering the unfavorable listening and speaking environment and the favorable writing conditions in China's foreign language learning context, this method advocates writing as a leading tool in the intermediate stage of learning, treats minor details as controllable variables, creates contexts through writing tasks tailored to foreign language learning characteristics, overcomes psychological barriers through the "Writing-to-Long" experience, stimulates creative achievement to release learning potential, and promotes learning through writing, achieving remarkable results that have already spread across the country. This book comprehensively presents this innovative teaching reform system, divided into two parts: "Concepts" and "Operations." The "Concepts" section collects academic discussions and empirical research on the "Writing-to-Long" approach by many renowned experts and scholars in China's foreign language education field, providing a panoramic view of research for colleagues in the field of English teaching. The "Operations" section primarily introduces the teaching reform project at the School of English, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, which has been characterized by the "Writing-to-Long" approach for more than five years, as well as the full-process planning for college English writing courses developed on this basis. Schools committed to reforming English teaching with "writing as the breakthrough" can fully adopt this teaching plan or select, supplement, or recombine the teaching tasks introduced in the book based on the characteristics of their teaching objectives.