scholarly journals A Review of the Evaluation of the Continuation Task

Author(s):  
Zhang Jie ◽  
Peng Yi

The continuation task is a new type of writing that organically combines reading and writing. It provides new ideas for English writing teaching. It creatively combines language input understanding with output writing, which can effectively improve students’ writing skills. This paper reviews different ways of evaluating “the continuation task” and outlines related research, aiming to provide suggestions for future teaching practice of its evaluation.

Author(s):  
Wang Juan ◽  
Li Qing ◽  
Li Xiaoxue ◽  
Zhao Yuru

<p>Reading and writing are two important parts of high school English teaching. Reading is the main way for students to input information, while writing is an important form of outputting information and a comprehensive reflection of students' English ability. Therefore, reading and writing content should be closely linked. However, in the practical teaching practice, teachers often separate reading teaching from writing teaching and fail to guide students to realize the complementary relationship between reading and writing, which often leads to low teaching performance and insignificant learning effects. Therefore, how to effectively integrate reading teaching and writing teaching in the teaching process of reading and writing training, promote writing by reading and lead reading by writing, is a difficult problem facing the majority of high school English teachers. The author found that the combination of class teaching in English reading and writing research can make the student constantly in the process of reading and the author dialogue, communication, and form their own understanding, for active information receiver and further become a have their own sense of readers, so as to do it in writing from time to tome words want to say, have words to say and have words to say, in the emotional attitude and method of writing has had the positive transformation, to improve the writing ability of certain. In addition, the case study of the integration of reading and writing has also improved teachers' professional cognition and teaching level. The first part of the paper introduces the current situation of English writing teaching in senior high school, the problems existing in students' writing, the necessity of combining reading with writing, and the purpose and significance of this study. The second part explains the importance of reading and writing and the ways to improve it through current research and literature review. The third part, through literature review, introduces the relevant research on the combination of reading and writing at home and abroad, and reveals the necessity of the integrated teaching of high school English reading and writing. The fourth part elaborates on the application of reading and writing integration in classroom teaching practice.</p>


Author(s):  
Peter Heckadon ◽  
Victoria Tuzlukova

Today, effective English writing is one of the most valuable professional skills for growth and development in the world of entrepreneurship. In spite of the prominence of English as the leading language of business and business education, writing is still one of the biggest challenges that business students face. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that explored Omani business student-perceived challenges, needs and wants in writing. The study used an online survey involving seventy students from Sultan Qaboos University who were asked to share their perceptions in regard to these three dimensions specifically related to the skill of business writing. Analysis of the data was conducted using frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Findings reveal that business students place effective writing skills high in terms of their perceived necessity. They also indicate that in spite of interesting and engaging writing activities contextualized in Oman’s world of business, students’ overall enjoyment level of writing is moderate on average due to perceived challenges throughout learning, and lacks in perspectives pertaining to how the writing tasks and assignments could be developed and implemented, including providing more guiding writing practice, more feedback, more interesting topics and more real-world topics and tasks. These student challenges, needs and wants analysis’ findings can direct further developments, leading to a successful English business writing syllabus and teaching practice.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Tsvetanka Tsenova

This article focuses on the relationship between literacy methods applied at school and the emergence of serious difficulties in mastering reading and writing skills that shape the developmental dyslexia. The problem was analyzed theoretically and subjected to empirical verification. Experimental work was presented which aims to study the phonological and global reading skills of 4- th grade students with and without dyslexia. Better global reading skills have been demonstrated in all tested children, and this is much more pronounced in those with dyslexia than their peers without disorders. Hence, the need to develop a special, corrective methodology for literacy of students with developmental dyslexia consistent with their psychopathological characteristics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 482 ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Ke Wei Ding ◽  
Wu Sun ◽  
Dong Chen

This paper introduces a new type of rock wool color steel sandwich which is produced by Anhui sambo steel co.,Ltd. The thermal performance analysis of this kind of sandwich is conducted through the finite element software ANSYS in this paper, which reveal the widespread existence of cold bridge phenomenon. And this paper also propose several new ideas on how to reduce the cold bridge condensation of interior wall panels of building.


ReCALL ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMEN CABOT

This paper presents the results of a study that demonstrates an effective use of the Web as a tool to increase motivation and thus promote reading and writing skills in Spanish as well as a deeper sense of the culture of the Spanish speaking world. In the study, thirty students of second year Spanish at the University of New South Wales were required to prepare an itinerary for a trip to a Spanish speaking country of their choice using the WWW as the only resource. In general our findings regarding improved language skills were consistent with the literature: an increase of vocabulary, more use of references, more student initiated interactions and greater interactivity in the classroom amongst students were observed. There was, however, one aspect, linguistic accuracy, in which improvement was not greatly noted. The data collected confirms that a task-oriented Web based course can increase the motivation of students, improve the scope of their reading, and enhance their perception of the target culture, all with a great effect on range of language explored, learned and re-processed, but a much lesser effect on the accuracy of written language produced.


2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
John Sivell ◽  
Ellen Pilon

Reviews of: 'How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,' by Jeremy Harmer; and 'Focusing on IELTS: Reading and Writing Skills,' by Kerry O'Sullivan and Jeremy Lindeck.


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