The Lesson's Activities & Handouts
Topic
With more and more chances for English learners in china to communicate with English-speaking foreigners，it’s essential to develop their communication competence in English and how to achieve the goal has thus become the primary task of education as well as the whole society．Writing is such an important means of communication in written forms that its proper expressions of ideas and feelings directly determine the success of communication．
I choose English writing in senior high school as the research task from the perspective of transfer of mother tongue on it. With the research purpose, I collect data by means of think-loud protocol, test and interview during the research. The hypothesis:
1. Mother tongue is the main reason to cause poor performance in English writing of senior high school.
2. Negative transfer is more obvious in English writing than positive transfer in the whole writing process.
Subject of research
The subjects participating in the whole research are students from senior high school in China. They are distributed to different research instruments.
The subjects involved in the TA process are 8 students from Senior High School．They are picked out from two grades，4 in Grade One and the other 4 in Grade Two for the sake of convenience and rationality of the research．
Instead of eight students for TA research，altogether 1 04 students，53 from Grade One and 5 1 from Grade Two，participate in the translation test．Ninety-eight copies are selected for they conform to the requirements of writing，but the rest of them are excluded for they are short or not related with the topic．The reason why so many students are supposed to engage in test is that survey of large scale is more authoritative and representative．
Because the time is limited，the subjects participating in the interview are 16 students, 8 from Grade One and the other from Grade Two．As a matter of fact among the 16 students，8 of them are former subjects of think—aloud
With more and more chances for English learners in china to communicate with English-speaking foreigners，it’s essential to develop their communication competence in English and how to achieve the goal has thus become the primary task of education as well as the whole society．Writing is such an important means of communication in written forms that its proper expressions of ideas and feelings directly determine the success of communication．
I choose English writing in senior high school as the research task from the perspective of transfer of mother tongue on it. With the research purpose, I collect data by means of think-loud protocol, test and interview during the research. The hypothesis:
1. Mother tongue is the main reason to cause poor performance in English writing of senior high school.
2. Negative transfer is more obvious in English writing than positive transfer in the whole writing process.
Subject of research
The subjects participating in the whole research are students from senior high school in China. They are distributed to different research instruments.
The subjects involved in the TA process are 8 students from Senior High School．They are picked out from two grades，4 in Grade One and the other 4 in Grade Two for the sake of convenience and rationality of the research．
Instead of eight students for TA research，altogether 1 04 students，53 from Grade One and 5 1 from Grade Two，participate in the translation test．Ninety-eight copies are selected for they conform to the requirements of writing，but the rest of them are excluded for they are short or not related with the topic．The reason why so many students are supposed to engage in test is that survey of large scale is more authoritative and representative．
Because the time is limited，the subjects participating in the interview are 16 students, 8 from Grade One and the other from Grade Two．As a matter of fact among the 16 students，8 of them are former subjects of think—aloud