New NMET Task: Continuation Task in China

Abstract

After a reform of the National Matriculation Entrance Test (NMET), Continuation Task, as a new writing task, has aroused extensive attention from educators and experts. In this instance, there is an urgent need to deal with several problems regarding how to enhance students’ ability in continuation task, and how to improve teaching effects after the reform. Based on relevant research, this paper summarizes and analyzes the theoretical background and research status of Continuation Task. Moreover, it also analyzes the current teaching process of continuation task, the promoting effect of continuation task and the factors that affect the promoting effect and finds that the current Continuation Task teaching status is not encouraging in that there are insufficient teaching resources for English writing classes, and teachers find it challenging to assist students with varying English proficiency levels. Therefore, proper reading materials and specific strategies are required in Continuation Task teaching. After that, it points out the deficiency of some research and areas that need to be improved, so as to provide suggestions for continuation task teaching, thus effectively improving students’ learning effect.