An empirical study of the effects of reading-writing connection on non-english majors’ writing performance

Abstract

College English writing has been considered as one of the most difficult parts in the field of foreign language teaching. On how to improve the writing performance of college students, a great many of scholars both at home and abroad conducted plenty of studies and achieved fruitful results. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether reading-writing connection has positive influence on the Non-English majors’ writing performance. The study indicates that reading-writing connection indeed has positive influence on the Non-English majors’ writing performance, especially in the aspects of content, language use, organization and vocabulary.