This paper studied how the EFL teaching practice facilitates learning and development of the English language majors in a pre-service teacher education program through conducting a new model of writing in the course of Integrated English. The research adopted a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative traditions. In addition to field notes taken during class observation and the teacher’s comments on the writing, the first and second drafts written by the students, their reflection reports and the peer-review comments were collected as main sources of data. The findings showed the changes the students experienced during the process mainly in the following three aspects: change of attitude towards writing, development in language proficiency, and reconceptualization of language teaching, a new understanding of the nature of writing and how to teach writing. The paper concluded that the input of the texts, analysis of samples, and the teaching activities the teacher conducted served as mediation tools to help the students learn and develop through their own exertions.
LIU Yun-Qiu.
An Inquiry of the teaching practice of writing in Integrated English in a Pre-service Teacher Education Program[J]. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice. 2013, 02(1): 55-61