I have studied Chinese for eleven years from primary school, junior high school and senior high school. Looking back on the road of China in the past eleven years, what have we gained? Why is it easier to learn a foreign language than a mother tongue? Why do Chinese exams always make us helpless? Reviewing Chinese makes us unable to start? Why do we always look for our hearts and feel nervous every time we write a composition?

Is Chinese just a pronunciation, a glyph and an idiom summed up by the teacher? Just reciting a few poems? How many ancient poems? Is it just a "daily practice" like a teacher collecting debts? Or the size composition that must be written every week?

Facing the people of China, people of insight issued an angry condemnation that "the people of China have got the whole world wrong". Teachers are more and more lamenting that they can't continue to teach, and students feel more and more unable to learn. It is no longer beautiful, even a little gray. China, what's the matter? Old? Cann't keep up with the times Or have we abandoned it?

In the face of China people, you may be full of complaints, and you may be miserable? Please say what you have to say.

Thinking guidance

This topic is relatively broad, and we can reflect on the current situation of Chinese: backward teaching methods and outdated teaching concepts.

You can write your own feelings about Chinese learning: how do you think Chinese should be learned and how teachers should teach it? Everything you know, everything you can say.

You can introduce your methods and suggestions for learning Chinese for your reference.

Reference theme

Look at Chinese coldly. Why does Lengxiang always get hurt when she flies to China? My opinion on Chinese learning.

If you want to learn Chinese, kung fu is outside the classroom.

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The final definition of "China people" (out of print) (turn)

The new Chinese curriculum standard says: "Chinese is the most important communication tool and an important part of human culture."

"Chinese is the most important communication tool" is ridiculous. Language is the most important communication tool for human beings.

Chinese and language are completely different in meaning.

What is "China people"?

Chinese is a culture expressed by language.

The core of Chinese is culture, and the shell is language; At this level, language plays an instrumental role.

Chinese is different from other cultures in language expression.

Terracotta warriors and horses are also cultures, but they are not expressed in words, but in clay.

Culture is divided into broad sense and narrow sense.

Culture in a broad sense, as the dictionary says, is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth created by people in the process of social and historical practice. Especially spiritual wealth, such as education, science, literature and art. "

Culture in a narrow sense is the sum of ideologies.

Chinese is a culture expressed by language. Culture can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense, and Chinese can also be divided into "big language" and "small language" "Great Chinese" involves a wide range of cultures, so we just need to focus on "language expression", study language, learn language and use language. "Small language" involves a narrow cultural scope, so we can focus on culture, understand all human ideologies, study carefully, critically absorb and innovate boldly.

In the stage of basic education, we should focus on "big language" education and properly carry out some "small language" education.

What is a second language? (turning)

"Ying Ying Yi Shui, the pulse is unspeakable" is a China language.

"You can't swallow a golden grain, you can't choke, and you can't lose weight in a rhombic mirror", which is the language of China people.

"The road to Xiu Yuan is long, but it's Xiu Yuan, so I will go up and down" is a China language.

"After all, where is Xiangshan" is a Chinese sentence.

"Physical death, soul, child soul ghost", this is a word from China.

"I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong" is a Chinese language.

"The poor wear clothes, but they are worried about charcoal, and they wish it were cold", which is a saying of China.

"An tens of millions of buildings, all the poor in the world are happy, and the wind and rain are like mountains", which is a sentence from China.

"Autumn in this northern country is especially clear, especially quiet and especially sad", which is a sentence from China.

"I am an old waterwheel on your river bank, …" is Chinese.

It turns out that Chinese is a poetic brilliance, a heavy concern, a romantic feeling, a lofty soul, a spirituality, a respect, a personality and a spirit.

This is language.

In the workbook, there is no such soul; There is no such spirit in the college entrance examination paper.

Chinese has degenerated into a kind of "instrumental discipline" of scientism, into "screening information" and "modifying ill sentences" in various test papers, and into "which of the following four options is wrong in phonetic notation?"

There is no beauty or white here; There will be no childlike innocence, no white. They are always just once.

Perhaps, the former Tong Mei still regrets, but his feelings are about to turn into mourning; Perhaps, once Taibai was still intoxicated in poetry, but his poems fell in the autumn wind, and he just looked at our world.

I cry for Zi Mei.

I cry for Taibai.

We read, we racked our brains to read, and we were too eager to fill in all the answers at the end of the article.

We write, we write with our heart, and we want to make the marking teacher feel bad too much.

We teach, we do as required, and we want our brains to keep up with the pace of the college entrance examination.

We study, we dig deep into the research, and we want to let the cautious brushwork pass the trap smoothly. Everyone knows how dangerous the test paper is, so we dance on tiptoe.

I cry for myself.

I cry for my students.

Dear friends, I believe that after reading this essay, your heart will definitely roll. ...

Then, pour it out: what should be the language in your heart?

Trilingual reverie

What is Chinese?

It is the Miluo River at the foot of Qu Yuan, the Duke of Chu.

It is the loyalty of Yue Feibei, a famous Song Dynasty star.

It is the history of Wen Tianxiang's immortality since ancient times;

In Mao Zedong's poems, it is a monster-like fishing boat outside Qinhuangdao;

It is a bright future with mountains and water;

It is a 10,000-point white sail beside the shipwreck;

It is a little silver dew under the free and easy sunrise;

It is a redwood bathed in the sunset;

That's the Great Wall of Wan Li, majestic and unyielding glory;

It's the feeling of windy desert and vast snowfield;

Is the brightest star in the bright night sky;

it is ...

I am a teacher (transfer)

Teachers can be regarded as a lucky profession. Doctors can only lead new life into this world at magical moments, and I can watch students have new problems, new ideas and new interpersonal relationships every day, and then feel the joy of life regeneration.

I am a teacher.

My main duty is to answer questions for students.

I have played many other roles.

Just as Socrates encouraged students to ask as many questions as possible to stimulate new ideas.

Just like Ann Sullivan passed the secret information of the world to Helen Keller through her fingertips.

Like Aesop and Andersen, they explain the truth to students through countless stories.

Like marva collins, I insist that every child has the right to education.

Like Ms Bethune, a black educator, I have a passion for establishing schools and educating ethnic minorities, even if I use fruit boxes as desks.

Many famous figures in history are also educators ... Booker Washington, Buddha, Confucius, Emerson, Leo Bascaria, Moses and Jesus.

Maybe some students can't remember my appearance and name, but I'm sure they will remember a teacher who gave lectures on the podium.

I have been invited to attend the weddings of former students many times, and I often cry with joy when I watch them marry beautiful wives or find husbands. If they are happy to have our son, they will drink full moon wine without me. But I have also participated in the sad scene of white-haired people sending black-haired people, and I am really sad to see students die young.

One day at school, I am not only a teacher, but also an actor, a friend, a medical worker, a coach, a psychologist, a surrogate parent, a salesman, a guardian of faith, a politician, and sometimes I borrow money from students to find their lost things.

I really have nothing to teach students except astronomy, geography, mathematical formulas, grammar, stories and books, because the most important course in one's life is to know oneself, which can't be learned by sitting in the classroom.

My work is polarized. I have to talk at the top of my voice in class. After class, I have to listen to the students. And my greatest comfort is to get feedback from students on my efforts.

I am like a treasure hunter, but what I want to explore is not material wealth, but I want to find the hidden potential from students because of setbacks, and constantly look for new opportunities to let them give full play to their strengths.

Teachers can be said to be a lucky industry. Doctors can only lead new life into this world at magical moments, and I can watch students have new problems, new ideas and new interpersonal relationships every day, and then feel the joy of life regeneration.

If the architect builds with care, a building can stand for hundreds of years; If teachers teach with love and sincerity, their influence on students will be eternal.

I am a soldier, fighting pressure, negativity, fear, prejudice, ignorance and so on all day. But I also have a lot of help, such as wisdom, curiosity, parental support, creativity, confidence, love and laughter. These are my best allies.

I can have such a full and happy teaching life, thanks to my parents. Children are the pillars of the future, and I feel honored that they have the confidence to deliver them to me.

I have too many memories along the way. Until now, my teaching work is still full of challenges and fun, because I am in contact with future masters.

I am a teacher-I thank God for making me a teacher every day.

(John Slade)

Five My Ideal Teachers (Turn)

My ideal teacher always smiles at life.

A person who smiles at life is a person who is far away from secular utility, is not surprised by honor or disgrace, is optimistic and upward, does not bow to difficulties, is positive and upward, is unwilling to be mediocre, loves life and pursues the ideal of a better life.

Teachers who laugh at life will make students love life, teachers who laugh at life will make students optimistic and open-minded, teachers who laugh at life will make students strong and brave, and teachers who laugh at life will make students have lofty ideals. With ideals, courage, optimism and love for life, our students will surely embark on the road of a happy life.

My ideal teacher can squat down and communicate with students.

Teachers who can squat down to communicate with students are democratic teachers, teachers who are committed to cultivating students' equal personality, teachers who respect students' individuality, teachers who are full of respect and care for life, and teachers who are full of humanistic qualities.

In the process of education, he pays attention to guidance rather than indoctrination, respects differences rather than persistence, tolerates students' mistakes and patiently expects students' progress. His students are comfortable in spirit, free in mind, full of personality and fierce in wisdom. In a word, his students live poetically by his side.

My ideal teacher will be friends with books for life.

Teachers who take books as their friends are teachers who are eager for knowledge, teachers who have the concept of lifelong learning, teachers who constantly surpass themselves with their ideals, and teachers who pursue spiritual perfection: they talk to masters, communicate with wise men, and communicate with saints emotionally, so that their outlook on life, world outlook and values are constantly revised, perfected and eventually sublimated.

Teachers who are friends with books will never be bored. Teachers who are friends with books will make every student love reading. Teachers who are friends with books will make students happy and fascinated with their rich cultural background and mellow humanistic accomplishment.

My ideal teacher will use candy to educate students who make mistakes.

The story of people's educator Mr. Tao Xingzhi who used four pieces of candy to educate students who made mistakes has always been talked about and passed down as a beautiful talk. Teacher Tao sees advantages from students' shortcomings, awakens students' inner kindness with the art of praise, inspires students to educate themselves, and shows the great wisdom of educators.

My ideal teacher, like Mr. Tao, has excellent educational wisdom. He can see advantages from shortcomings, potential from shortcomings, and problems from achievements. He can peek into his heart from his behavior and see through his quality from his behavior. He pays attention to the development of students and their lifelong growth.

Teachers are faced with lively people with different personalities. They are developing people who need guidance. The world is complex and changeable, and scientific development is changing with each passing day. Guide students to grow up healthily, promote students' active development, let every student go to life with confidence, ideals and vitality, and let every student become a qualified citizen who is beneficial to others and society. Teachers should have excellent educational wisdom. Education deeply calls for this kind of teacher with excellent educational wisdom, and the society eagerly expects this kind of teacher with excellent educational wisdom.

6. Walking (turning) in thinking

Education is a kind of waiting.

Education, an immortal legend. It has been crowned with countless auras and suffered endless censure.

Education, an ancient and young topic. Countless prophets have worked hard for it, how many people are eager to try at the end of their studies, and how many young talents there are. Leading figures in the teaching field have been constantly understanding, discovering and uncovering her mysterious veil.

Education is a kind of existence. Existence has both rationality and development. Its rationality is understandable, and it is difficult to attract criticism, and those who want to criticize it can't criticize it; Its potential development naturally becomes the target of public criticism. Those who criticize for the sake of criticism condemn it, those who are ignorant of its mystery accuse it, those who travel hard complain about it, and those who are deeply ignorant try their best to praise it.

As a result, this existence has created countless new existence.

Education needs to be paid.

Education is not waiting for a rabbit, not doing nothing, not once and for all. Wang Guowei once said that the questioner of the great cause in ancient times must pass through three realms. One is "Last night, the west wind carved green trees, went up to the tall building alone, and looked at the horizon." "Looking at the end of the world" must first "climb high buildings", and education needs to be paid.

No pains, no gains, no pains, no gains, no pains, no gains, no pains, no gains, no gains. Planting education needs cultivation, watering, weeding and seedling raising, and careful care. However, the fruit harvest will not be obtained immediately after planting, and it will take some time to wait. Therefore, education is a kind of waiting.

Education is a kind of waiting.

Education is a long-term project. How can skyscrapers rise in three or two days? Long construction time can bring long standing time. As for education, those who are eager for quick success and quick success will feel ashamed, because education is a lasting project. Three generations of gentlemen. Education takes time. You need to learn slowly, experience slowly, develop slowly and wait slowly.

Education needs to "make people haggard for Iraq", "gradually widen their belts and never regret" and persist. As the old saying goes: Heaven pays off its people, it must first suffer its mind, its bones and muscles, and starve its body and skin ... Ancient immortals have to go through arduous tests to get the Tao. If their minds are not firm, they will not only become immortals, but also fall into nasal hell. Education, if you want to gain some experience and gain some gains, you also need to persist.

Education needs to be calm and calm when it insists on waiting. If you are impetuous, you will not see Mount Tai. If you are sober and calm, you will have wonderful ideas and creativity, and your thoughts will gush out like spring water.

Education is a kind of waiting. Waiting is a torment, but after experiencing this torment in spiritual search, you will get another feeling, a feeling of being suddenly enlightened. As the saying goes, "When you look back suddenly, that person is in a dim light." At that time, life will reach another realm, a brand-new realm. Participating in education can improve one's own realm.

Education is a kind of existence and a kind of waiting. In this kind of waiting, you need to pay, insist and meditate. Education needs poetry and education is full of poetry. Education is a poetic waiting.

Letter from Professor Qian Liqun of Peking University (continued)

Ma Bocheng wrote it on July 20th, 2003.

Teacher Ma Bocheng

Hello!

I received your letter in the ward.

Due to illness, I feel weak and can only say a few words. The handwriting is also scrawled. Please forgive me.

I agree with you. In middle school Chinese education, we should emphasize memory, reading aloud and reciting. It's strange not to listen to books, acoustics and Chinese. In my opinion, reading aloud and reciting are based on the characteristics of Chinese, so it is not contradictory to guide students to feel and understand in reading aloud and reciting.

The vigorous and fashionable phenomenon pointed out in the masterpiece, that is, the impetuous wind in teaching thought and the formalism in teaching methods, may be even more worrying. If we don't practice reading, reciting and writing in a down-to-earth manner and neglect accumulation and habit cultivation, we will be punished in the end. If one day students' actual listening, speaking, reading and writing level really drops sharply, someone will definitely put it all on the account of "educational reform". Therefore, all teachers and social people who really care about the reform of Chinese education in middle schools should be "less fashionable and more practical", which is really related to the future of Chinese education reform in middle schools.

Thank you again for your trust in me. Thank you for your inspiration.

Write this down in a hurry

Song Ji

Teach Ann!

Qian Liqun

65438+February 5, 2000

Attached to my book:

To learn Chinese well, you need to learn by rote.

At present, there are some misunderstandings in Chinese teaching in middle schools: too much teaching of reading methods, too much training of reading skills, neglect of recitation training, neglect of knowledge accumulation and neglect of the cultivation of good reading habits. When learning Chinese, students either immerse themselves in the vast ocean of problems in an attempt to find real gold, or put Chinese aside and "squeeze" time to spell math and physics in order to "make up for the loss in the embankment". As a result, in Chinese class, "I only saw Wang Yang's topic, but didn't hear the sound of books". Say this phenomenon is strange?

In fact, to learn Chinese well, we must have an honest learning attitude, strengthen the training of reciting memories, and "memorize" when necessary, and develop a set of "rote memorization" skills!

Huang Yufeng, a teacher from the middle school affiliated to Fudan University, hit the nail on the head: "What's wrong with rote memorization? In the youth with a particularly strong memory, you should memorize something hard and memorize something hard. This is the language foundation and this is capital. " Mr. Hong, a famous special-grade teacher in China, even emphasized that learning Chinese should be "swallowed". Professor Qian Liqun from Peking University also highly praised the traditional Chinese teaching. God once said: "In our traditional enlightenment education, the teacher asked the students to read the scriptures aloud without any explanation. In the cadence, they naturally understand some unspeakable charms in the classics, and then recite them over and over again, putting some basic concepts in traditional culture into the almost blank minds of schoolchildren like nails. Even if I don't understand it at the moment, I always keep it in mind. With the growth of age and certain experience, I will not understand myself. " The traditional Chinese teaching in China proves that strengthening the training of "rote memorization" is the prerequisite for the success of Chinese teaching. For example, an interesting statistic has been made: in order to be the top scholar, candidates in ancient imperial examinations should read the notes of the original text and other classics, history books and literature books several times, and also read and memorize all the books with more than 400,000 words, such as The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Book Classic, Etiquette and Zuo Zhuan. We often say, "Read it a hundred times, and you can see what you mean" and "Read 300 Tang poems by heart, and you can sing even if you can't write poems", all of which illustrate the role and significance of reading. Look at the masters of modern literature: Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun and Ba Jin. Who is not a master of reciting? We can also think of great contemporary natural scientists: Su, Qian Xuesen Keats, who can't recite a lot of Tang poetry and Song poetry? For example, when Mr. Su was in primary school, he recited Zuo Zhuan and 300 Tang poems every day. By the time he graduated, these two books had been able to recite them backwards. When he first entered middle school, the teacher didn't believe that he could write "Reading Cao Gui's Argument", so he recited an article "Don't destroy rural schools in production". He recited it in one breath and said, "I can recite the whole Zuo Zhuan." On the contrary, those "master students" and "doctoral students" who even write a product manual full of typos are well-known secrets. Obviously, without memory and recitation, there will be no accumulation of knowledge, and the improvement of ability will become a cook without rice and a tree without roots.

From the psychological point of view, the ability of memorizing plays a great role in the training of one's thinking ability, the accumulation of words and the cultivation of language sense. Bacon said, "All knowledge is just memory." Teenagers are in the most vigorous period of memory and have a lot of memory space. According to research, the amount of information stored in a normal person's memory is 6.5438+0 million times that of a digital computer, which is equivalent to 50 times that of the library of Congress. Only by firmly remembering many materials and memorizing them "hard" can the huge space of memory be continuously developed and utilized by people. If a person does not accumulate some knowledge and store some "nutrients" during adolescence, it is a great intellectual waste. In addition, the basic function of learning is to accumulate knowledge and experience for supply. If the memory is wrong and the mind is empty or confused after reading, then reading will lose its function and the door to the treasure house of knowledge will be closed. How can you learn Chinese if you don't memorize it, or if you don't remember it deeply and solidly? Where does the cultivation of language sense and inspiration come from? Aren't fluent words and profound thoughts castles in the air? This is what Zhu said, that is, "the eye has crossed, the mouth has crossed, and the heart has crossed", reaching the realm of "one stick, one scar, one slap and one palm blood".

A popular saying now is that memory and recitation must be carried out on the basis of understanding. This sounds reasonable, but it overemphasizes the role of understanding in memory. For middle school students, it is better to remember on the basis of understanding. However, not all knowledge can be understood, and there is no need to remember what is not understood. What's more, understanding needs to be based on rote learning. Without the foundation of memorization and the accumulation of knowledge, understanding is impossible. Because of the richness, fuzziness and substitutability of Chinese semantics, readers, critics and researchers often have the phenomenon of "understanding but not explaining". Needless to say, "a thousand readers will have a thousand Hamlets", even the same reader will have different understandings of the same reading object under different knowledge backgrounds, and many articles will not be fully understood in his life. The process of memorizing and reciting is a process of accumulating knowledge, as well as a process of thinking training and sentiment cultivation. The pulse theory and feelings of the text inevitably flood into the reader's brain and become something in his heart. The reading procedure in private schools is to recite first and then explain. This practice has lasted for thousands of years and has its reasonable merits. Of course, the "rote learning" that we repeatedly emphasize in Chinese teaching is not to recite the general idea and central idea of paragraphs, but to recite classic chapters containing the essence of human civilization for hundreds of thousands of years, and middle school students can't remember them by understanding for the time being.

There are many reasons for not reciting or reciting mistakes, but the most fundamental reason comes from two aspects: First, the teacher is too arrogant. The impetuous tendency of teaching thoughts and the formalistic tendency of teaching methods lead to the impracticality and inefficiency of Chinese teaching. In terms of teaching ideas, some teachers unilaterally emphasize the cultivation of students' reading analysis and understanding ability and the systematization of knowledge transfer. Usually, students are not paid attention to effective back reading training, and they take "38 sets" and "42 sets" in the exam, which is called taking shortcuts in the exam. In fact, it not only violates the law of Chinese teaching, but also violates the teaching principle of taking students as the main body, which seriously inhibits the improvement and creative play of students' Chinese literacy. Even if some exams are "brilliant", the final result is still that students' thinking is rigid and their personality development and creativity are stifled. To put it bluntly, this impetuous wind of quick success and instant benefit is undoubtedly harmful to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. In the form of teaching, some teachers like to follow the trend, pay too much attention to teaching methods and styles, and ignore the cultivation of students' good Chinese reading and reciting habits, which makes the classroom lively and empty after class, and students gain little. Second, students are not clear about learning the law. The heavy academic burden makes students feel at a loss. Middle school students naturally choose mathematics and physics between the hard task of mathematics and physics and the relatively "soft" task of Chinese recitation and memory, and mercilessly abandon the essence of human civilization, which can become the pillar of lifelong development. At the same time, many students use the rational, logical and analytical methods commonly used in learning mathematics and physics to gain the language ability that can be obtained by irrational, illogical and non-analytical methods, ignoring rote learning, and even more unwilling to "memorize" the knowledge they don't understand. They did a lot of questions, and in the end they were all empty and thankless. Therefore, the "strange thing" of "10 year, more than 2,700 class hours, but most of them failed" continues, and it is not surprising that the theory of "missing a lifetime" in Chinese education appears in society.

"Poetry in the belly", empty belly and straw bag are lack of self-confidence; "The bench will be cold for ten years, and the article will not be empty." Writing is like this, so is reading. I hope that our Chinese educators will be more practical, and we also hope that our middle school students can practice reading and memory in a down-to-earth manner, work hard to remember, strengthen memory training, and prepare their due "capital" for their future work and life.