ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATION ABSTRACT 摘要 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Background of the Study 1.2.1 Initial thinking about the students' errors 1.2.2 The necessity of correcting errors in students' writing in the course of English teaching 6-10 10-11 11-12 13-14 14-24 14 14-22 14-15 15-17 1.2.3 The importance of developing consciousness 17-19 of SCE in writing 1.2.4 The importance of competence of SCE in 19-20 writing 1.2.5 Requirement in NMET 20-22 1.2.6 Present situation of teaching of writing 22 1.3 Objective of the study 1.4 Research questions 1.5 Organization of the thesis CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Input and output 2.3 On corrective feedback 2.4 Features of SCE in writing 2.4.1 Focusing on SCE 2.4.2 Essential feature of errors 2.4.3 Sources of errors 2.4.4 The attitudes to errors 2.4.5 Errors in writing 2.4.6 The attitudes to SCE in writing 2.5 The judgment to errors in writing 2.5.1 The collection of errors 22 22-23 23-24 24-46 24-25 25-27 27-29 29-41 29-30 30-32 32-37 37-38 38-41 41 41-44 41-44 2.5.2 The magnificence of error analysis to the 44 foreign language teaching in high schools 2.6 Summary CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The subjects 3.3 The researchers 3.4 Instruments 3.4.1 The writing papers 3.4.2 The questionnaires 3.4.3 Interview 3.4.4 Reading and reciting materials for training writing 3.5 Summary CHAPTER FOUR FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Introduction 4.2 A general situation of the students' SCE in writing 44-46 46-59 46 46-47 47 47-58 47-51 51-56 56-57 57-58 58-59 59-86 59 59-64 4.2.1 Descriptions and analysis of questionnaire 59-62 1 4.2.2 Descriptions and analysis of questionnaire 62-64 2 4.3 Errors in students' composition samples 4.3.1 Errors in grammar 4.3.2 Errors in idioms 64-67 64-65 65 4.3.3 Errors in collocations or part of speech 65-66 4.3.4 Errors of Chinglish 4.3.5 Spelling errors 4.4 Impedance and ways out 66-67 67 67-71 4.4.1 Factors impeding students' SCE in writing 67-68 4.4.2 Multiple means enhancing SCE in writing 68-71 4.5 Analysis from pre-training to post training 4.5.1 Analysis of the writing papers 4.5.2 Analysis of the errors in the writing papers 71-83 71-75 75-77 4.5.3 Analysis of the errors in the writing papers of Class A 4.6 Interview 4.7 Summary CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Major findings 5.3 Answers to the research questions 5.4 Pedagogical implications 5.5 Limitations and suggestions for the further research
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