声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1．1 The Research Background
1．1．1 Writing Requirement Stressed in the National Matriculation English Test
1．1．2 Writing Ability Emphasized in the Teaching Syllabuses at High School
1．2 The Research Significance
1．3 The Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2．1 Related Studies at Home and Abroad
2．2 Related Concepts and Theories
2．2．1 Definition of Error
2．2．2 Classification of Errors
2．2．3 Contrastive Analyrsis
2．2．4 Error Analysis
2．2．5 Interlanguage Theory
Chapter Three Methodologies
3．1 Research Questions
3．2 Participants
3．3 Instruments
3．3．1 A Writing Task
3．3．2 Questionnaires
3．4 Procedures of the Research
3．5 Data Collection and Analysis
3．5．1 Data Analysis of The Writing Task
3．5．2 Data Analysis of Questionnaires
Chapter Four Results and Discussions
4．1 The Writing Task
4．1．1 Lexieal Errors
4．1．2 Grammatieal Errors
4．1．3 Discourse Errors
4．1．4 An Analysis of Writing Samples
4．1．5 Summary
4．2 Questionnaires
4．2．1 Questionnaire 1
4．2．2 Questionnaire 2
4．2．3 Summary
4．3 Suggestions for English Writing in High School
4．3．1 To Raise Students’ Motivation to Write
4．3．2 To Enlarge Language Input by Reading
4．3．3 To Compare Chinese with English
4．3．4 To Enhance Basic Language Knowledge
4．3．5 To Strengthen English Writing Training and Practice
4．3．6 To Master Strategies of Error Correction
4．4 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5．1 Major Findings
5．2 Limitations
5．3 Implications for Further Studies
Bibliography
Appendices
Acknowledgements
