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1、RethinkingtheTeachingofEnglishWritingintheClassroomRethinkingtheTeachingofEnglishWritingintheClassroomZhiyongDeng1ZhiyongDeng,Ph.D,currentlyassociateprofessoranddeputydeanofCollegeofForeignLanguages,UniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnology(USSTforshort).Hisresearchfieldsarerhetoric,compositionres
2、earchandstylistics.Hismajorpublicationsinclude“ASocio-cognitiveModelfortheTeachingofEnglishWriting”inModernForeignLanguages(《现代外语》)(2002),Vol.4;“RhetoricandWesternPhilosophicalThoughts”inForeignLanguageTeaching(《外语教学》)(2001),Vol.1;“AnalogyinAdvertising”inForeignLanguagesAndTheirTeaching(《外语与外语教学》)(2
3、000),Vol.2andResearchonEnglishRhetoricandWriting(《英语修辞学与写作研究》),JilinPeople’sPress(吉林人民出版社),2002.Address:P.O.B.436,516JunGongRoad,Shanghai,China,200093,Email:shzhydjx@yahoo.com.cn.Tel:021-65500647.YangTao2TaoYang,Master,currentlylecturerofUniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnology.Theauthor’sresearc
4、hfieldisrhetoricandappliedlinguistics,Address:sameasabove,E-mail:zjyt@163.com,Tel:021-65513808UniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnologyAbstract:TheresultsoftwosurveysonChinesecollegestudentsofEnglishprompttheauthorsofthispapertoexplorefactorsthatresultintheinefficiencyoftheteachingofEnglishwriting
5、intheChineseclassroom.Thefactorsinclude:misunderstandingofthenatureofwriting,andoftheteacher’srole;problemwithwritingtextbooks;insufficientEnglishwritingresearch.Keywords:rethinkingteachingofEnglishwritingproblems1.IntroductionTeachingEnglishwritingtoChinesestudentshaslongbeenrecognizedasoneofthemos
6、tdauntingtasksofcollegeeducationinourcountry.Sooftendowehearwritingteachers’uneasyremarksaboutthepoorqualityofstudentwritings,whichmainlymanifestsitselfinlackofsubstance,improperwayoftextualdevelopmentandpoorgrammar.Andsooftendowehearstudents’grumblingcomplaintsabouthavingnothingtosayandnotknowingho
7、wtosayproperly.“Ihavelittletosayaboutit,”saysonestudent.“Writingisnastilyboring,becauseIreallydon’tknowhowtowrite,”grumblesanother.Suchisatroublingscenarioprevalentinourcountry,asistestifiedbyonetextb