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htmlOn September 23, the official website of the Ministry of Education announced the reply to the National People's Congress deputies' "Suggestions on Enhanced Cultural Confidence to Increase the Reform of Chinese Cultural Content Teaching and Reduce the Percentage of English Teaching".
This reply is based on two suggestions from . Aunt Tongshu will explain the deep meaning of this with you.
Suggestion 1: Use it to reduce the time for English teaching to increase or increase the teaching of Chinese traditional culture, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that children can get in touch with our Chinese culture at the critical moment of the formation of a world outlook, and increase our cultural pride and cultural confidence from an early age.
In recent years, schools and parents have paid more and more attention to Chinese studies education and children's learning of traditional culture, which is a very good phenomenon.
However, does English learning conflict with traditional Chinese studies? Let’s see how the Ministry of Education responded.
Ministry of Education replied:
. Strengthen the design of the education system for excellent traditional Chinese culture.
. Organically integrate into the excellent traditional Chinese education with the focus on Chinese language, morality and rule of law (ideology and politics), history and other disciplines.
. Key textbooks for Marxist theory research and construction projects are organically integrated into the education of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
. Include the excellent traditional Chinese culture into the college entrance examination.
Interpretation:
Articles 1, 2, and 3 are easy to understand, which means that in the future teaching process, we will pay more and more attention to the learning of Chinese traditional culture. In the design of textbooks, the proportion of Chinese studies will be increased; in daily teaching, Chinese traditional culture will be integrated into various fields.
In fact, Chinese traditional culture is not an independent discipline, nor is it limited to memorizing Chinese classics.
In addition to the knowledge of Chinese characters, calligraphy, traditional festivals and other knowledge contained in the Chinese subject, the Ministry of Education also encourages schools to introduce traditional culture in other subjects:
- History focuses on cultivating students' sense of identity with the excellent traditional Chinese culture by letting students understand oracle bone inscriptions, Dujiangyan project, "Four Great Inventions", etc.;
- art attracts students to appreciate Chinese folk art works such as paper cutting, shadow puppetry, New Year pictures;
- Sports and Health specially sets up the "Chinese Traditional Sports Sports" course content;
- physics guides students to understand ancient bronze and iron manufacturing technology in my country and its role in promoting social progress.
The last article "Incorporating the excellent traditional Chinese culture into the college entrance examination" is a very important signal.
Judging from the 2022 college entrance examination composition questions, the probability of questions that tend toward Chinese studies and traditional culture will become increasingly greater in the future. There is another sentence in the reply
that is worthy of attention: "Precautions to examine the relevant content of China's excellent traditional culture through various forms."
What society in the future needs is comprehensive talents, not just Chinese test papers, but also Chinese traditional culture test points may be introduced in the liberal arts test papers.
Parents should pay more attention to their children's general education.
Suggestion 2: reduces the proportion of English teaching and accounts for a proportion of points in the exam. Learning English is necessary, but it is not necessary to take up that long time and pay attention to it to a certain degree of deformity. Reforming English teaching methods is no longer the only purpose of taking high scores, but the focus is on oral dialogue and life application.
Chinese English education has always been criticized by people. The reason is that it pays too much attention to exam-oriented skills. After learning English for many years, it dares not speak. Either learn "dumb English" or it is Chinese English with "People mountain, people sea".
English has always been ranked as one of the three major items in the college entrance examination, along with Chinese and mathematics. The English that I spent so much energy and time learning was returned to the teacher after graduation. Is this a waste of resources?
Ministry of Education replied:
. The proportion of foreign language classes in primary and secondary schools is lower than that in Chinese and other subjects.
. Determine the proportion of foreign language examinations according to central requirements.
Interpretation:
The first reply pointed out: According to the latest curriculum plan for 2022, the proportion of class hours for each subject is: Chinese 20%-22%, mathematics 13%-15%, sports and health 10%-11%, foreign language 6%-8%.
From this point of view, the highly sought-after "English teaching reform" is finally about to begin. The past era when the whole nation spent a lot of money to learn English and one English stumped heroes is about to pass.
In the second reply, the arrangements for English in the unified examination were formulated in accordance with the 2014 "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Examination and Admissions System".
8 years have passed, and the proportion of English scores in the future unified examination will inevitably change.
At the end of the Ministry of Education’s reply, it was said:
Next step, the Ministry of Education will strengthen the training and implementation guidance of primary and secondary schools, organize the revision of compulsory education textbooks, continue to promote the implementation of the construction plan for textbooks for colleges and primary schools and the management measures for textbooks for colleges and universities, deepen the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination, further strengthen the education of excellent traditional Chinese culture, guide students to strengthen cultural confidence, and consciously promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Interpretation:
In general, the Ministry of Education has released three signals:
. In the future, the proportion of Chinese studies and traditional culture will increase in primary and secondary school textbooks and teaching;
. In the future, education will pay more and more attention to the education of Chinese culture;
. In the future, the number of test points for Chinese studies and traditional culture will increase in the future.
There have been constant discussions on "whether to learn" and "how to learn" in English.
In the reply from the Ministry of Education, although it was not clearly proposed to reduce the proportion of English learning, the signal was already very clear, that is, it emphasized Chinese culture in particular.
But is "learning foreign languages well" contradictory to "learning Chinese culture well"?
The answer is: No!
At present, English is still one of the mainstream common languages in the world. Learning English well means adding a bridge to the world.
Because, when we learn English well, we no longer just to get high scores in the exam and have an extra stepping stone when looking for a job, but to learn Western languages to better understand the Western world and the Western way of thinking.
For example, understanding the most cutting-edge technological trends in the West, looking up literature, communicating with foreign experts, and speaking for China, all of which are necessary to master the English.
From this point of view, isn’t the level of learning English much higher?
As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.
Although the original intention of this suggestion by the NPC deputies is to enhance cultural confidence, in the view of the Tongshu Aunt, only by improving her comprehensive strength can she have stronger confidence.
This reply from the Ministry of Education allows us to see the importance of education on traditional Chinese culture in the future, but it does not mean that the importance of English will be reduced in the future.
So instead of weakening the learning of English subjects, it is better to say that the English model should be learned.
changed from blindly memorizing words and doing cloze-filling blanks to practical English teaching, allowing students to apply what they have learned and form a virtuous cycle.
I hope that in future studies, parents and educators can break out of the "utilitarian" thinking of learning English, so that our education can truly make progress.
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