The aim of teaching writing isn’t quite clear in the daily classroom teaching. This article emphasises that the aim of teaching writing isn’ t only to test, but to train. The writer analyses the problems in students’ writing and suggests some possible ways for teachers to help students with their writing.
More then ever before,English language teaching focuses on learners’communicative competence.That is to say,English language teachers nowadays are not only to teach their students linguistic knowledge but also to cultivate their competence to use the language.So it’s self evident that drawing language out of students instead of cramming them in,duck stuffing,as our idiom has it,calls for more time effort and a better command of the language on the part of teachers.In other words,better trained teachers are urgently needed in order to accomplish the goals of English language teaching today.This paper just points out that being reflective practitioners is a workable and effective way leading to both the improvement of teaching in classroom and their own development as professtional practitioners.
