INTERVIEW AND REPORT: A MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY IN TEACHING EFL WRITING

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: 内口
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（1）
• 页码范围: 49-51
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

English writing is gaining attention and emphasis in our col-lege syllabus, having an important role to play in learning andcommunication. However, of the four skills (speaking,reading, writing and listening), it remains the most difficult.Traditional methods of teaching writing have undoubtedly con-tributed to the improvement of the learner’s writing skills andstrategies. But new methods and activities are needed to maxi-mize the efficiency of traditional methods and keep students in-terested in this course. This paper is a step-by-step description ofan activity used in a writing course for English majors, whichcombines speaking with writing and makes the writing task ac-quire real communicative needs. To put it plainly, the studentsare asked to interview an English teacher and then write a reportbased on the information obtained from the interview.