A Case Study of Scaffolding Instruction in College English Writing Teaching

Abstract

Writing is an important way of communication to convey information and exchange feelings in writing. One of the purposes of English teaching is to cultivate students' preliminary writing ability. Writing teaching is an important part of junior high school English teaching, which should run through the whole process of English teaching, always accompanied by the teaching of vocabulary, dialogue, grammar and text. For English teachers, how to help students improve their writing ability is extremely important. For many years, scholars at home and abroad have devoted themselves to the study of a variety of effective teaching models of constructivism. With the help of this wave of research, Scaffolding Instruction has come out. This article aims to study the applicability of scaffolding theory in school English writing teaching, and explore the use of effective scaffolding teaching strategies to better promote students' English writing ability and literacy in college English teaching.