A Tripartite Analysis of Challenges in Continuation Writing Task Instruction

A Tripartite Analysis of Challenges in Continuation Writing Task Instruction | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article A Tripartite Analysis of Challenges in Continuation Writing Task Instruction Xu Dong, Nur Ainil Sulaiman, Wahiza Wahi, Siti Shuhaida Shukor This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7817285/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Continuation Writing Task (CWT) is a newly developed writing task in China which designed by Professor Wang Chuming for L2 teaching and learning. Although previous studies have found CWT as an effective ways to promote L2 langugae acquisition, challenges still exist especially in the front line L2 classroom.This study was therefore conducted to identify the real challenges that CWT teachers facing in applying CWT in English teaching in senior high schools in Hainan, China. This study is a qualitative case study which involved four senior high school English teachers. Semistructured interviews were used for the collection of the data in this study. The data obtained was analyzed using the descriptive and comparative analysis method to determine the final themes and potential themes. By cross-analyzing the nine potential themes from the four teachers, three final themes were extracted, which contained teacher role expansion, insufficient system support and complexity of students’ ability predicament in CWT are the identified challenges in CWT teaching. This study revels the relationships between the challenges and gain an interlock mechanism for the challenges. Pointed out the urgent research direction need to explored in the current CWT teaching. Continuation Writing Task challenges Gaokao interlock mechanism senior high schools Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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