How to improve your English writing skills in an English classroom

Abstract: Five Skills Reading, writing, listening, speaking, and translating are indispensable and should interact and complement each other in teaching, and the teaching of writing is as important as any other skill. Writing in English is particularly important for students majoring in English to improve their overall ability.

Starting from the connection between English writing and "listening, speaking, reading and translation", this paper expounds the importance of English writing to improve the comprehensive ability of English majors.

English writing is one of the important contents of English learning, and it is also one of the important parts of the test, and it is also a comprehensive test of the comprehensive ability of English learners. As the saying goes, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". The formation of English writing ability is not a day's work, and it must be practiced bit by bit from daily learning, and perseverance.

Combined with the teaching work in the past few years, I believe that to improve the English writing ability, we should start from the following aspects:

1. Strengthen listening training and promote English writing

We all know that listening, speaking, reading and writing in English are closely related, interpenetrating and inter-based, and the ability to write should be cultivated and improved on the basis of listening, speaking and reading. Obtaining linguistic information through listening channels and writing down what you hear will be very beneficial to writing.

2. Strengthen the accumulation of vocabulary, phrases and sentences

These three elements are the materials that reflect the content of the composition, and they are also the most important step, just like earth, masonry and stone are building materials, these three elements are spoken and written. Required Materials. Therefore, students should memorize the words, key phrases and sentence patterns that have been taught in each lesson, and be able to form sentences, and with sufficient vocabulary, they will be able to express themselves clearly in general writing.

3. Read widely and acquire a lot of linguistic information

Read more than 10,000 volumes, and write like a god". This quote vividly illustrates the relationship between written expression and extensive reading. Only by reading a large amount and extensively can we strengthen our ability to understand and absorb written information, consolidate and expand our vocabulary, enrich our knowledge of the language, and understand the cultural background of English-speaking countries.

Practice has proved that the wider the extracurricular reading and the greater the amount of language practice, the stronger the ability to express oneself in English. The two are like inputs and outputs, and it is impossible to have a large number of outputs without enough input absorption.

4. Copying texts and copying texts

Nowadays, most of the English language materials are based on the actual learning and life of students, the content of the texts is easy to understand, and the way of expression is vivid and interesting, and students can imitate and write, because these are all living topics around them. There are sample essays in the book, and imitation is an effective way to overwrite; On the other hand, it is to be able to copy and write essays, and the "copying" here refers to the usual learning inside and outside the classroom, if there are good phrases, aphorisms, sentences, paragraphs or articles, they should be copied in a notebook.

5. Keep a diary and improve your writing skills

As you grow and accumulate knowledge, you can stick to writing a paragraph of the day that you find most meaningful activities or good people and good deeds, long or short. Journaling is the first step in cultivating the ability to write freely in English, which is not limited by content and experience, and allows you to give full play to your imagination and express yourself freely on familiar topics.

In short, the most important thing to improve your English writing skills is to persevere, as long as you persevere, the improvement of your writing skills will come naturally.