2。Students do not have a proper amount of vocabulary。 It is not a uncommon phenomenon in China nowadays that many students’ size of vocabulary is not big enough to support their daily communication。 The poor size of vocabulary results in the phenomenon that sometimes students could not translate the Chinese into English fluently and correctly, then they could not express their true ideas clearly, at the same time, students’ trains of thought would always be interrupted in this process, and at last, the English writing becomes hard to go on。
3。The sentence patterns that students use are usually simple and short。 The correct use of grammar plays an important role in English writing。 In order to reduce the grammar mistakes, many students would always choose to use the short and simple sentence。 Actually, practice makes perfect, it is hard to improve students’ writing abilities if they never practice the new sentence patterns in their daily learning。
4。The relationships between sentences are not so logically structured。 The ultimate goal of writing is fluently and efficiently communicating and conveying the writer’s ideas to the readers。 So a clear and logical relationship really matters much in a comprehensible piece of writing, which could reflects the inner thoughts and feelings of learners smoothly。
2。1。3The requirements of English writing in New English Curriculum in China。
As the English education develops quickly in China, the curriculum has been designed and reformed accordingly in recent years。 And as teachers, the guider and the designer of the lessons, they need to follow the steps of the social development and understand well the new requirements of the NEC as well as the characteristics of the students。 After that teachers could formulate the proper teaching plans。
According to the current English writing abilities of Chinese middle school students, the New English Curriculum comes up with the new and acceptable requirements in 2011。
As for the designing principles for New English Curriculum, a Chinese scholar Wang Qiang (42-43,2006) provides us five principles as follows:
1。 Aim for educating all students, and emphasis equality-oriented education。Promote learner-cent redness, and respect the inpidual differences。
2。 Develop competence-based objectives, and allow flexibility and adaptability。
3。 Pay close attention to the learner process, and advocate experiential learning and participation。
4。 Attention particular importance to formative assessment, and give special attention to the development of competence。
5。 Optimizing learning resources, and maximize opportunities for learning and using the language。
Based on the principles above, the New English Curriculum for nine-year compulsory education was formulated。 “The main task of NEC is to
1。 stimulate an cultivate students’ interests and their confidence in learning the language
2。 help them develop the good learning habits and form effective learning strategies
3。 facilitate autonomy and cooperative spirit in learning
4。 enable students to master basic English language knowledge and skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing so that they form sufficient competence in using the language
5。 cultivate students’ abilities to observe, to memorize, to think, to imagine and to create
6。 increase their awareness of the cultural differences between the East and the West。”
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In terms of the writing objectives for middle school students in New English Curriculum, the students are supposed to reach the level 5 when they finish grade 9 English lessons in junior middle schools。