Abstract—This qualitative study examined the current
writing instruction in 1-12 level education with the data
collected in three Chinese cities. The data from the Interviews of
teachers and teacher-educators at different levels and from
classroom observations at upper elementary to high schools in
three metropolitan cities across China provide insights into 1-12
writing instruction in contemporary China. To further reveal
the efforts taken by writing teacher under China’s high-stakes
testing culture, this paper also presented a case study of an
exemplary 10th grade writing teacher, who took tremendous
efforts in nurturing true readers and writers in his classroom
under the test-obsessive culture in China.
Index Terms—Literacy education, Writing instruction,
teacher education.
Rongrong Dong is with the Southern University of Science and
Technology, China (e-mail: dongrr@sustc.edu.cn).
Danling Fu and Buyi Wang are with University of Florida, USA (e-mail:
danglingfu@coe.ufl.edu, buyiwang@ufl.edu).
Xiaodi Zhou is with Georgia Southwest State University, USA (e-mail:
fugee613@gmail.com).
Cite: Rongrong Dong, Danling Fu, Xiaodi Zhou, and Buyi Wang, "Writing Instruction in China: Challenges and Efforts," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 715-723, 2019.
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