Applying Production-Oriented Approach to Promote Students’ English Core Competence

-- Taking the Reading for Writing Selection of Unit2 Travelling Around in Compulsory Book 1 of New Senior English by People’ Education Press as an Example

Abstract

English teaching in senior high school aims at comprehensively improving students’ English Comprehensive Competence and promoting the development of students’ Core Competence. However, according to the high school English teaching practice at present, the problem of separation between learning and usage is very serious, and students’ reading and writing abilities have not been effectively improved. In 2015, Professor Wen Qiufang put forward a foreign language teaching theory with Chinese characteristics -- the Production-Oriented Approach (POA). To a certain extent, this approach can be used to guide English teaching practice in senior high school to solve the problem of separation between learning and usage. Therefore, this paper will first introduce the POA, and then elaborate the specific application of it in senior English teaching, looking forward to effectively improving students’ reading and writing abilities and developing their Core Competence.