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to  behaviorism,  the writing  process  is  composed  of  three  stages:  stimulus  ( the models provided  by  teachers)—response (students’ writing products)—consolidation  (teachers review students’ writing to influence the next writing) (Yang Jin, 2013). Behaviorists think that teaching writing is to write essays by imitation in which students have some writing  samples  provided  by  teachers.  The  writing  samples  are  concrete,  clear  and accurate. As far as Nunan (2001) is concerned, the learners can imitate, copy and transform model  essays  offered  by  teachers  or  textbooks.  Though  in  the  past  few  years,  some scholars disagree with the behaviorists’ ideas on teaching. However, the theory is still popular  in  educational  area.  In  writing  class,  the  approach  of  applying  models  is  still widely conducted in China at present. 
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2.2 Function of Imitative Writing
Qin Hong (2003) thinks that imitation does not refer to simple plagiarism. Instead, it means doing something according to a certain model. Only if the imitative thought is formed in mind can it be called the best imitation. More importantly, plenty of time will be saved by selecting the proper model with embroidery supplement on the basis of the content. Chen Danyu (2012) points that to improve the students’ writing competence, they should imitate a short essay after learning each unit. On the one hand, this can help the  students  learn  and  master  the  writing  characteristics  and  skills  of  different  genres. On the other hand, this can help them consolidate the words, phrases, sentence patterns and  grammar,  which  is  useful  for  them  to  improve  the  comprehensive  ability  of  using knowledge. Liu Kehong (2011) thinks imitating the classical works is an inevitable way to lead to high level of writing.   What’s more, Zhang Lin (2002) has found out that the implementation  of  imitative  writing  is  a  significant  method  to  develop  the  students’ writing  competence.  Besides,  by  this  approach,  the  students  can  reduce  their  writing anxiety.  Hirvela  (2004)  believes  that  imitation  is  one  of  the  most  basic  learning processes, and it probably plays a greater part in writing training that we know. He feels that  giving  a  student  permission  to  copy  various  styles  (not  to  plagiarize,  of  course) accelerates his process. 
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CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY ........ 15 
3.1 Research Questions ........... 15 
3.2 Subjects ..... 15 
3.3 Instruments ........ 16 
3.3.1 Pre-test and Post-test ...... 16
3.3.2 Teaching Journal .... 17
3.4 Research Procedures ......... 17 
3.5 Data collection .......... 25 
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