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Construction of Junior High School English Writing Teaching Mode Based on Scaffolding Instruction Theory from the Perspective of Core Literacies

Received: 13 March 2023     Accepted: 6 April 2023     Published: 18 April 2023
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Abstract

Writing teaching is a notably important way to implement the core literacies of English discipline in China, which includes language ability, thinking quality, culture awareness and learning ability. Nevertheless, English learners, in general, have little interest in English writing class and show unsatisfactory English writing levels with teachers putting much attention to the accuracy of language at the cost of the development of thinking quality and cultural awareness. To advance students' core literacies and to address the problems of writing teaching, the researcher constructs a model of English writing teaching in junior high schools on basis of scaffolding instruction theory under core literacies. In this model, teachers set the goals of core literacy development in line with students' zone of proximal development and appropriately apply scaffolding to facilitate learners’ core literacies. Besides, the specific procedures of the model consist of five steps within three phases, that is, creating a context to stimulate learners’ interest in writing, providing scaffolding to boost their core literacies and organize collaborative learning to expand their learning resources in the pre-writing phase; withdrawing scaffolding properly so as to improve learners’ writing skills in the while-writing phase; launching evaluation to check the implementation of core literacies in the post-writing phase. In short, the study aims to provide teachers with effective strategies for writing teaching and help students achieve the goals of core literacies.

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijecs.20230802.14
Page(s) 57-61
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Keywords

Core Literacies, Scaffolding Instruction Theory, English Writing Teaching Mode, Junior High Schools, Zone of Proximal Development

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  • School of Foreign Languages, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

  • School of Foreign Languages, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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