Author(s)

Yan Meng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Huainan No.6 Senior High School, Huainan, Anhui, 232001, China

Corresponding Author

Yan Meng

ABSTRACT

English writing plays a very important role in the English proficiency test for high school students and college entrance examination. Therefore, it's extremely urgent and challenging for all the English teachers to apply a more effective approach to improve students' English writing ability. Scaffolding teaching model is based on constructivism and Vygotsky's concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD). Questions are the most common scaffolding in the learning process, and the experienced teachers provide the question scaffolding naturally and appropriately during the students' learning process. Questionare, pretest, post-test and interview are used in the study of the application of question scaffolding model in senior high school English writing teaching. This kind of teaching model has been proved to be effective and has been widely applied abroad. But in China, there are still few empirical studies on scaffolding teaching in the field of English writing in senior high school. So, the present study makes an attempt to study how to improve students' English writing ability under the guidance of question scaffolding teaching model.

KEYWORDS

Question scaffolding model, English writing teaching, application

CITE THIS PAPER

Yan Meng, The Application of Question Scaffolding Model in Senior High School English Writing Teaching. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 124-132. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.060420.

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