英语写作是体现学生语用能力的一个重要方面,但一直以来却是英语教学中最薄弱的环节。这是由于近年来有些英语教师过于强调语法,较少注意语言结构是如何在语篇中运用,致使英语写作教学只停留在句子层次上。本文提出,将语篇分析引入到写作教学中能够有效地提高学生的写作能力。 English writing is an important aspect of students’ pragmatic competence, but it has always been the weakest link in English teaching. This is because some English teachers in recent years have placed too much emphasis on grammar and paid less attention to how the language structure is used in the discourse so that the teaching of English writing only stays at the sentence level. This paper proposes that the introduction of discourse analysis into writing teaching can effectively improve students’ writing ability.