Effects of the Production-Oriented Approach on College English Writing Instruction in Yangtze University

摘要

English writing ability is one of non-English-majored undergraduate students’ important abilities in comprehensive applying English. This paper reviewed a four-week experiment on production-oriented approach (POA) in teaching the college English writing to 118 first-year non-English-majored undergraduate students who majored radio and television editing, horticulture and tea science from Yangtze University as subjects. Subjects in this study consisted of 59 non-English-majored undergraduate students in the control group (CG) and 59 non-English-majored undergraduate students in the experiment group (EG). Results in this study showed that 1) college English writing ability of subjects in EG with POA applied in college English writing instruction was improved; 2) For the English writing performance, there was a significant difference between CG and EG; 3) Subjects in EG gave positive responses on POA applied in college English writing instruction.