【正文】 y cling to the inherent experience tenaciously and do not take the educational reform. (2) Their own knowledge and ability lag behind, especially these who do not have the teaching qualification. Their English pronunciation,listening, speaking and writing ability are limited, thus they are unable to organize the classroom freely. Teachers’ ability is so limited that cause students’ low ability. And there are also some teachers who lack the essential pedagogical skill which is unable to use the pictures, English songs and so on to stimulate student39。 they do not try their best to enlarge their scope of knowledge or accumulate wonderful sentences and sentence patterns。 they do not try to develop their interest in writing. Therefore, when they write, they have no idea of what to write about or how to write logically and fluently. This will e to the result that they dislike the writing course and consider it a hard burden.While these students give up cultivating their writing petence, some other students practice writing frequently. They may write whatever they want to write. For example, they may keep a diary or a weekly diary。s interest. (3)Although today is the information age, many of them are not able to use the multimedia equipment and the Internet to search teaching resources and adopt advanced teaching ideas and the teaching methods.”(Duan Yafang，2008: 67)What result is the insufficient number of qualified English teachers? Because of the ine gap and the differences in living conditions, excellent teachers drain is pretty severe in rural areas, which leads to grievous shortage of teachers in these areas. Due to heavy tasks of teaching,poor living and working condition in rural areas, some of them abandon teacher ship to pursue merce。 some engage in the secondary occupation to fish the extra ine。 Scholl, 2002: 84) It is effective in bringing to the forefront of the mind all the information one knows about a certain topic. The teacher should guide this activity properly. First he/she should let students think individually for about five minutes, which helps sharpen their minds and get something ready for writing. Then he/she should divide the whole class into groups of two to five students. The teacher asks them to talk with each other about the set topic. In this way, students exchange their opinions of the topic and their thought is expanded.Through brainstorming, students can generate good ideas concerning the essay topic. They are more stimulated than through pondering over the essay topic alone. Apart from these, brainstorming can make the writing class more lively and enjoyable。王薔. 英語教學法教程. 北京:高等教育出版社,2000. shorten the cultural gap between native speakers and them. Also, reading helps students accumulate useful and beautiful sentences as well as idioms. It helps cultivate the students’ literary appreciation. If the students collect the essence, the good points and sentences while reading and browse them very often, they will enlarge their scope of vocabulary, which is the basis of writing. This helps them write more idiomatically.Secondly, reading can expand students’ line of thought. As the Chinese saying goes “The more you read, the better you write.” Reading provides sources for our writing, because we may find out many fresh things through reading like the changing in the nature. This will make the students take notice of what is happening around them. And they will find many things deserve writing.Thirdly, reading can arouse students’ desire for and interest in writing. Especially after they read good essays, they will be willing to write something similar. Sometimes they do not take notice of the things happening around them, but others do, and write something good about the things. Then they think they can also do it. If they are not satisfied with what they have written, they will revise it again and again until they think it as good as what they have read.Lastly, reading can provide models for students’ writing. At the very beginning, the students imitate to write. The essays they read provide sentence patterns and phrases for them. Gradually, they can use different sentence patterns to write about the same thing. Also, they can write about the same thing in their own ways. After doing this again and again, their writing skills definitely will be improved to some extent.However, if the students do not practice writing, no matter how many books they read, they will not improve their writing, because “practice makes perfect”. If they do not practice often, the result will undoubtedly be dissatisfaction. Like learning to swim, learners should not only learn the theory, but also jump into the water. The latter is even more crucial in the learning process, for without jumping into the water and struggling in it, one can never learn how to swim. It is the same for writing. After reading, the students may have some ideas of their own。 On the other hand, it is necessary to control the quality of adult education strictly, which can improve the English teachers’ knowledge level and basic teaching skills truly.English teachers should keep making progress. They not only improve educational background and study the New Curriculum standard and advanced foreign language education theory, but also update educational conception. English teachers may organize the collective to prepare a lesson, engage in classroom teaching research, highquality courses petitions, and organize other activities to learn from each other and seek mon progress。 some crush into the city from rural areas。 Zhou Xiang, 2006: 35). English teachers in cities’ middle schools meet the standard for educational background basically. Therefore, there are considerable amount of English teachers do not meet the standard for level of education in rural middle schools. There are even some teachers who do not graduate from a regu