每当提到培养学生的交际能力,人们可能会单纯地认为只是培养学生英语的听、说的能力,所以长期以来,教师对英语写作能力的培养不甚重视,直接导致目前学生英语运用能力极差。从目前学生的写作水平来看,学生的写作能力显得非常薄弱,部分学生不会写或拒绝写,还有一部分惧怕写或不愿写,少部分盲目写或写得不尽如人意。下面结合我的英语教学实践,探讨如何培养学生的英语写作能力,催生英语有效教学的具体做法。一、转变教学理念,萌生写作意识在英语教学中,强调听、说能力和着重培养阅读能力无疑都是对的。但多年的教学实践告诉我们,写作能力的培养对其他几项技能的培养有着至关重要的影响。教学既要扭转培养会读不会说的所谓“英语哑巴”的局面,也要避免培养出能听懂、读懂一点,也会说几句,却不会写的“英语文盲”。写作在学英语的过程中有其特别重要和不可替代的 Whenever it comes to cultivating students’ communicative competence, people may simply think that they only cultivate students’ ability of listening and speaking English. So for a long time, teachers pay little attention to the cultivation of English writing ability, which directly leads to the current students’ difference. From the current students ’writing level, students’ ability to write is very weak, some students will not write or refuse to write, and some fear to write or not to write, and a small part of the blind to write or write less than satisfactory. The following combination of my English teaching practice, to explore how to develop students’ writing skills in English, gave birth to the specific practice of effective English teaching. First, change the teaching philosophy, initiation of writing awareness In English teaching, emphasizing listening, speaking ability and focus on developing reading ability is undoubtedly right. But many years of teaching practice tells us that the cultivation of writing ability has a crucial influence on the cultivation of several other skills. The teaching should not only reverse the situation of cultivating the so-called “English dumb” that will not be read, but also avoid cultivating students who can understand, read a few words and can not write “English illiterate ”. Writing is particularly important and irreplaceable in the process of learning English