Writing only for the college entrance examination: a brilliant suggestion

Recently, the Beijing Youth Daily comments published an article by Xu Xiao, a Chinese teacher in Chongqing, titled "Why do many Chinese teachers oppose the college entrance examination and write only compositions ?" After reading this article, I felt a lot of emotion and couldn't help but discuss it.

This article mentioned that sun shaozhen, editor of the experimental Chinese Textbooks of the Ministry of Education, recently went to the Ministry of Education and strongly recommended that the Chinese college entrance examination only take one essay. He also introduced sun shaozhen as an expert in the Chinese language reform of the college entrance examination, at present, he is also the head of the Chinese language life cycle for the Fujian College Entrance Examination. He believes that he should be more clear about the advantage of the Chinese language in the college entrance examination than the frontline teachers. The topic of this article is to talk about why many Chinese teachers oppose the college entrance examination and write only compositions (This point of view will be mentioned later). Therefore, Sun shaozhen did not discuss the reasons for giving this suggestion. I guess there must be plenty of reasons for the expert to think carefully about this suggestion. I also want to talk about the merits of this suggestion from the perspective of my personal experience.

It has been 30 years since the college entrance examination was resumed. Over the past thirty years, the information revolution, the economy of knowledge and information, and the wave of information socialization and social informatization have emerged worldwide, the political, economic, military, and cultural systems of human society have been fully refreshed and are being comprehensively refreshed, thus comprehensively changing people's lifestyles, ways of thinking, and conceptual patterns. It is the wave of this great revolution that shows the world a new era of human civilization, which is different from industrial civilization-the era of information society civilization. The information age not only provides unprecedented fertile ground for the cultivation of personal abilities, but also puts forward higher requirements on the quality and quantity of personal abilities, especially the ability to express personal words.

Information theory tells us that the information process includes four steps: input, storage, processing, and output. If an output link is missing or a problem occurs in the last link, it makes no sense to have more input, more storage, and more complete processing. There are multiple ways to output personal information. The most common and important method is language, and the language is expressed through the oral and text carriers. Language ability is a comprehensive embodiment of a variety of abilities such as observation, reading, memory, thinking, expressiveness, and persuasion, it is also a concentrated reflection of a person's comprehensive qualities of thought, wisdom, knowledge, experience, character, and temperament. In his book "capability panic", Wang Xiaoping, a practitioner of research-based learning and a talented woman of Dacheng, vividly compares verbal and written language to the two legs of giants, it also defines the essential attributes of the "broad range of advanced and daily necessities" (interested readers can refer to this book expo ).

It is not necessary to elaborate on the "daily use" of the document, especially in the current information age, that is, the "daily use" of the document that is only available in the context of study, work, life, communication, and even leisure and entertainment "? In particular, when students leave school and move towards the social market, the role of Literary Talents cannot be underestimated. The author wrote an article entitled "Building a bridge for self-employment by using online media" at the beginning of last year, wu Xiaofeng, a graduate of Peking University Medical College, went back to his hometown to sell sugar gourd because he could not find a suitable job at the moment. After the media reported that he was hired by a certain organization for preferential treatment, it indicates the necessity of using the media, especially the online media, to actively "report" yourself and "promote" yourself. Of course, this must be done on the premise that an individual has a certain document.

I remember that Associate Professor Ma Shaohua from the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China once published an article entitled "industries for helping people to express", and thought that it is still possible to develop into an industry with universal social needs in the future. He said that the current online hot sales "job report" and other phenomena have sent two messages: first, in our society, in enterprises and institutions, social groups and organizations, opportunities and needs for expression start to grow. Second, due to the growth of expression needs, a new market-oriented service industry may emerge. He also said: "From now on, the industry that helps people express has such characteristics, it does not require any capital investment (because the country and the parents of students have already invested in school). It only requires a clear mind and well-trained language and text expression skills. With the rapid growth of the population enjoying higher education, the human resources in this industry have been formed ." "As an individualized, knowledge-intensive third industry that does not need any production materials or organizational costs, it may create countless jobs and huge GDP. What we need now is to update our ideas and prepare loose observation conditions for such an industry ."

In addition to "daily use" and the possibility of becoming an industry, the author realizes that it also plays a role of "Daily promotion. In order not to make yourself "Knowledgeable", you must constantly learn new knowledge, accept new information, and create new thoughts. In short, you must "promote" your lifelong learning. Otherwise, your work reports, blog articles, and so on will be a cliché, or pick up others. Not only will people be dismissive, but they will also feel sorry for others' "Attention "...... Let's go back to the topic.

Editor sun shaozhen's advice is brilliant not only by turning to the "demand" of the times, but also by the "outline" of Chinese teaching ". On the one hand, this "outline" refers to the fact that the goal of Chinese teaching in middle schools will be clearer and more specific under the powerful power of the "Command and hold" of the college entrance examination; in addition, if Chinese Teaching in Middle School takes writing as the "outline", it will "outline" and truly make Chinese teaching a classroom for cultivating students' talents. Imagine how to write a good article without a solid foundation of Chinese language? That is to say, as long as you grasp the "writing", students will naturally consolidate the Chinese base. Recently, it has been reported that the Ministry of Education requires colleges and universities to open Chinese language courses for all college students, mainly because the overall Chinese level of contemporary college students is not high, this is not only related to the decline in the quality of students due to the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities, but also to the lack of emphasis on Chinese education in the education system. The author believes that Sun's suggestion is a good solution to treat this stubborn disease. Based on the above reasons, the author believes that the remedy for opening Chinese courses in universities should also adhere to the principle of "writing ".

Why do many Chinese teachers disagree with sun shaozhen's brilliant suggestions? Teacher Xu Xiao analyzed three reasons: First, normal education is getting worse and worse, and even has a similar status with agriculture, forestry, and mining. Domestic high-quality students generally do not apply for normal schools, in addition, Chinese is the least in normal school. In this case, the writing level of Chinese teachers can be imagined. If the college entrance examination only writes the composition, it is difficult to give them a question first. Second, it is also one of the reasons why the Chinese teaching content is obsolete and out of the times. The times have entered the new century. How can the writing level of students improve their content and opinions decades ago? If the college entrance examination only takes the essay, many people will score a lot. Third, "Learning mathematical physics and chemistry is not afraid to go all over the world" is still the inspirational slogan of middle school students. When both liberal arts and science cannot be considered at the same time, there will always be a situation where Chinese give way to science. The author believes that the slogan "Don't fear" is outdated and impractical. The reality is: "It is difficult to get a job by focusing on mathematics and physics; it is a good combination of arts and sciences, come to him or her for work )."

As an experienced and writing enthusiast in the Chinese language teaching field, Xu Xiao's analysis should be objective and accurate. Isn't that the need to write only for the college entrance examination? It is likely to be like a high-held, invisibly powerful "Whip", urging the whole education system to pay attention to Chinese education and spur the updating of Chinese education ideas, spur the shift of emphasis in Chinese teaching and innovation in methods, and spur the great development of teachers and students in their respective talents! I believe that the Ministry of Education will pay attention to and think carefully about this insightful offer.