A Tripartite Analysis of Challenges in Continuation Writing Task Instruction

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.