Developing strategic management guidelines for self-practice Chinese writing for senior high school students at Yunnan University, China

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to investigate the problems of Chinese writing of high school students, 2) to investigate the needs of self-practice Chinese writing for high school students, and 3) to develop strategic management guidelines for self-practice Chinese writing for high school students. The respondents in this research were 348 students and 30 teachers obtained through a simple random sampling technique in senior high school at Yunnan University as a case study. The research instrument employed in this study was a questionnaire with 60 questions for students and teachers.  The result indicated that problems and needs of self-practice Chinese writing for senior high school students from the perspective of students and teachers at Yunnan University, China, are at the "highest" level, respectively (x̅=4.55, x̅=4.61) from the perspective of students and (x̅=4.59, x̅=4.52) from the perspective of teachers.  The strategic management guidelines for self-practice Chinese writing for high school students consist of six units, namely, 1) Foundations of Writing, 2) Developing Writing Confidence, 3) Structuring Your Writing, 4) The Role of Feedback in Writing, 5) Identifying and Selecting Writing Topics, and 6) Advanced Writing Techniques.