Abstract
The cultivation of writing ability has always been one of the teaching goals of English majors. It is listed as the five skills of English learning along with listening, speaking, reading and translation. Nowadays, people gradually realize that most Chinese college students’ English writing ability is not very satisfactory. One of the problems is that most students are affected by their mother tongue. The Chinese way of thinking hinders the development of their language skills, thus restricting further language learning. English corpus is of great help in terms of vocabulary, grammar usage, monitoring and verification of the correctness of language output. In this paper, the author combines the teaching practice of English writing with the application of English corpus, and conducts research on its effectiveness. Results show that students’ language errors in compositions are reduced, their vocabulary becomes richer and more diversified, and students’ feedback is very good. Besides, this method can also encourage students to learn independently to improve their writing skills.
Highlights
The cultivation of writing ability has always been one of the goals of English teaching
The author combines the teaching practice of English writing with the application of English corpus, and conducts research on its effectiveness
The results show that integrating corpus technology into autonomous learning and appropriately emphasizing the guiding role of teachers are conducive to students’ English writing (Liu & He, 2017)
Summary
The cultivation of writing ability has always been one of the goals of English teaching. It is listed as the five skills of English learning along with listening, speaking, reading and translation. English teachers can choose some corpora to assist in teaching on purpose, which is a better way to show the natural use of language to students. The author has made some attempts to apply corpora to the teaching of writing, and found that the Corpus of Contemporary American English, abbreviated as COCA, can help students solve the problem of “how to write” in writing. If teachers can teach students the basic methods of using the corpus, students can discover the mistakes in their compositions by themselves and make corrections, which improves their autonomous learning ability greatly
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