Abstract
The teaching of writing is always a headache to Chinese language teachers. Many students in primary schools show no interest to composition lesson and they just finish writing casually. Language teachers also feel that it is very dull to corre ct students' composition as they are all the same. In 1994, a primary school in Hong Kong conducted a reform of teaching of Chinese writing. The school adopted a new writing project named as "Whole Language Writing Project". In 1997, nine schools joined t his project. "Whole Language Writing Project" is student-based. It emphasizes on the practical use of writing and the combination of writing, reading, speaking and listening. This paper tries to introduce the theory and account for the implementation of t his writing project. The influence of the project on students, teachers, schools and the curriculum of writing are also included.
| Keywords: | teaching of writing; whole language approach; Whole Language Writing Project |
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