Abstract

Writing is a concern both of Chinese teachers and students. In this paper, the author inspects the teaching of English writing from the angle of Chinese poor performance in international language tests to dig out the problem existing in domestic teaching of this section, and try to put forward specific methods to solve those problems. The author compares and contrasts the scoring standards of both kinds of tests, and mainly addresses the differences between them; also, she refers to the current related researches, and gets a clear picture of current situation of teaching and research in this field so as to find out why Chinese students can not meet the international and normal requirements of English writing. After figuring out this, author makes the summarization and comes up with some approaches which combine the advanced teaching theories and domestic situation, hoping to contribute a little to the teaching and learning of English writing in China.

Key words: language tests；teaching of English writing；scoring standard； improvement approach

摘要

英语写作一直是中国英语教学研究者和学生们所关注的问题。在此篇论文中，作者着眼于中国学生在国际语言测试中的表现，对国内英语写作教学展开观察和研究，旨在找出目前存在的值得注意的问题，针对这些问题提出可行的方案。作者将国际和国内语言测试的评分标准进行具体分析和对比，将着力点放在两者差异的分析上。同时参考现代相关研究成果，得出国内英语写作教学的大致现状，据此分析总结出中国学生在国际语言测试中的薄弱表现的一系列原因。在论文最后，作者从全方面多角度考虑，结合国外先进理论和国内具体实情，提出若干改进和提高英语教学水平的措施，希望能为国内英语教学事业贡献绵薄之力。

关键词： 语言测试；英语写作教学；评分标准；改进措施

Introduction
English, more frequently, serves as a tool of communication, whose functions are often carried out in both oral form and written form. Statistics from IELTS have demonstrated that the overall performance of Chinese students is below average. Furthermore, speaking and writing rank the last, which at the same time greatly pull down the overall ranking. As for the speaking, even though Chinese students used to deliver a poor performance, we can still be comforted by the fact that they attach more importance to this ability out of deep interest. Accordingly, it is grounded to predict a considerable improvement of speaking ability of Chinese students.
However, what becomes our major concern is the writing ability. Writing is a comprehensive application of English. It can not only reflect the expression ability, but also display the logical thinking. All those international language tests unexceptionally regard writing performance as a quite important criterion to know the actual English ability, and furthermore, many foreign universities set a minimum score of writing in its application requirement. At the same time, domestic middle schools, high schools and universities begin to realize this field. Unfortunately, the outcome of those studies and researches fail to meet expectation.