Author(s)

LiShan Lv^1*, Jun Su¹, KeXin Hu²

Affiliation(s)

¹School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.

²Department of Anesthesiology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

LiShan Lv

ABSTRACT

This paper adopts the action research method and designs the corresponding "Production-oriented approach"(POA) teaching of college English based on the diagnostic test report of the "Udig" platform, to explore whether POA teaching can effectively improve students' English writing fluency and strategies. After one semester of POA teaching, with the statistics of the pre-test and the post-test compared, we find that POA teaching can effectively improve students in more fluent output in writing in terms of word number, word length, sentence number and sentence length; and also in better usage of writing strategies in the aspect of accumulation of writing materials, diversification of vocabulary and expression, the polishing of the text and structure of writing the whole passage.

KEYWORDS

Production-oriented approach; Diagnostic assessment; Action research

CITE THIS PAPER

LiShan Lv, Jun Su, KeXin Hu. The influence of "production-oriented approach" teaching on the development of college English writing FLUENCY and writing STRATEGIES. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2024, 2(4): 72-77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3024.

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