Language, as our mother tongue, is one of the languages we learn and use from an early age.
Nowadays, however, many children are facing difficulties in learning Chinese, especially for middle and high school students, and the language exam has become a nightmare. Not only do they have to deal with a lot of writing and reading, but they often struggle to get the desired score on the exam.
Why is Chinese language so difficult for Chinese children to learn? One netizen put forward this explanation: "The teaching content is out of touch with the requirements of the test, the reading comprehension questions are beyond the scope of teaching, and the requirements for extracurricular reading in the test are not clear, which makes it difficult for students to understand the questions." ”
Indeed, as students move up the grades, the content of the "Chinese" exam is getting farther and farther away from the textbook. In primary school, Chinese exams are mainly based on textbook content, but in junior high school, students are faced with a large number of reading comprehension questions that are beyond the scope of the textbook.
The children said they had never seen these topics in class and did not know how to deal with them. Parents are also confused by this and feel that the current lack of clear guidance on Chinese language teaching is disappointing.
In fact, language itself is a flexible subject, but there are two main reasons for the "disconnect between teaching and examination".
First, schools usually only teach textbook content, while exams test students' understanding of extracurricular knowledge. This has resulted in many students being unable to adapt to the exam requirements. Teachers follow the syllabus but the exams are presented by a different group of people, who may not understand the actual teaching situation, resulting in a disconnect between teaching and exams.
Secondly, the reading comprehension questions themselves are subjective, but they are asked to give standard answers. As one netizen said: "Nowadays, even the author can't get a high score in Chinese reading comprehension, and everyone has different comprehension ability and should have different opinions, but there is only one standard answer to the exam." ”
This situation is related to test-oriented education, and the answers to reading comprehension questions are gradually standardized for the sake of fair scoring, and the original assessment meaning is lost.
Some experts have suggested making the exam more difficult, but I don't think that's the answer. Chinese should be a warm cultural inheritance, and too many out-of-scope test questions and unreasonable standard answers will only make students feel frightened and bored with the subject, which is not good for education.
I hope that experts can go to the campus, communicate with front-line teachers in depth, understand the actual situation of students, solve the problems existing in the current Chinese teaching, and give full play to the true charm of Chinese.
Finally, I would like to share some experiences. Although there is no apparent correlation between the content of the class and the exam questions, in fact, the principles of language are the same. Mastering the basic knowledge is the key, and you should read as many extracurricular books as possible in middle school to develop the ability to think, experience and summarize.
When our ability improves, the idea of answering questions will also become clearer. What are your thoughts on this issue?