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Much more than a subject of entrance examination, writing is also a widely-used skill. However, in the curriculum of junior high schools, writing course is usually compressed or neglected compared with other courses. The study combined the writing with the Parent-teacher communication booklet that has to be reviewed by teachers every day, hoping to pave a way for dealing the problem. The course and students taught by researcher were used as the research subject for this study. The study aimed to: 1. analyze the most frequent writing mistakes, and provide instructional strategies accordingly based on these mistakes; 2. discuss the impacts on combining Parent-teacher communication booklet and writing in relationship to junior high school students’ writing ability; 3. strengthen the linguistic expression ability and inspire students to write confidently through the innovative teaching about writing. Based on the results of the pilot studies, the researcher designed and developed 24 writing units by using restricted writing model in 12 weeks. The units were arranged according to General Ability, Special Ability and Comprehensive Ability. These abilities were then evaluated in the mid-term and final exam in order to understand the students’ writing progress. The most frequent mistakes made by students were found in the study, and suggested instructional strategies were given to high, middle, and low score teams accordingly. The study found that the impacts of the combination of Parent-teacher communication booklet and writing on the writing ability include improving the writing scores, the linguistic expression ability, and the changes of writing skills through life records especially in the high score team. Although the fears of writing did not disappear, students’ confidence on writing and their willingness to share and discuss with each other growed. The impacts of the combination of Parent-teacher communication booklet and restricted writing on teaching of writing include providing regular exercises to students beyond normal teaching hours, maintaining or even saving the time onreviewing communication books and normal writing explanation, allowing individual review on personal problems, solving problems of restricted writing by specific exercise, and increasing teachers’ pleasure of grading writing assignments. The study was aimed to provide suggestions for teachers to design individual writing exercises and teaching strategies based on students’ levels and abilities. Teachers should modify the materials from the publishers based on students’ needs and levels. Writing is an accumulated process, and the way of thinking can improve literacy. It is necessary to have the students make time to write. In order to promote the strategy in this study, teachers who are not majoring in Chinese are also encouraged to take advantage of the Parent-teacher communication booklet. Additionally, it is also recommended that the teachers who are not majoring in Chinese can cooperate with Chinese teacher to correct the students’ exercise once a week. |