海外英语（上）
海外英語（上）
해외영어（상）
Overseas English
2014年
8期
49-51
,共3页
ESL writing%Genre Theory%Genre-based approach%Professional College English major students%exposition
The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two catego-ries, that is, they don’t know“what to write”and“how to write”. The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major’s students in writing and enhance students’discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the fol-lowing questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a sig-nificant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students’in-terest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students’writing achievement and enhance students’interest in English writing.
