Research Of A Centurial Middle School Composition Proposition

Composition Teaching is a very important but difficult part in the education of Chinese. The key factor of composition teaching is to provide an appropriate title. Composition proposition reflects the education thought of a teacher. The appropriate degree of proposition determines the degree of the teacher's leading role in composition teaching, the student's writing ability and their writing improvement. The quality of proposition also affects the exertion of its determined functions of selection and guidance effectively in the language ability evaluation. The study of composition proposition is of great significance to improve the level of composition teaching and composition proposition, and it can promote the new curriculum reformation and explore examination culture.Importance has all always been attached to article writing in the Chinese history; therefore there appeared many glorious periods of literary creation and numerous Masters. These achievements are attributed to a solid foundation of composition training or composition proposition. Since the independency of Chinese language subject, the history of composition teaching has been over a hundred years.Together with the ups and downs of the society, composition proposition has accumulated a lot of experiences, but also has painful lessons. In order to give some enlightenment to composition reformation, this paper tries to describe the main track of the thought development of composition proposition, and analyzes the reasons. Documentation, comparison, statistic and historical analysis are the main methods in this paper used to study the history and process of composition proposition. The main contents are as follows:1) to outline the development of composition proposition; 2) to reveal the characteristics of composition proposition in different historical phases; 3) to search the causes of composition changes and developments; 4) to summarize the lessons learned from history of middle school composition propositions and to conceive its future development.According to the characteristics of middle school composition proposition in different historical periods, the development of composition proposition is divided into four historical periods in this paper.1) The period of inheritance and reformation. Chinese education has opened a new chapter in 1904, which can be seen as the important turning point of modern composition education history. Composition proposition moved with the track of traditional writing, but there had some new dawn coming. Practical ideas had become the dominant ideology with the impacts of Pragmatism adjusted to the article proposition.2) The period of exploration and stereotypes. There has been thirty years from May 4th New Culture Movement to the foundation of People's Republic of China. The problem in middle school composition teaching around the year 1919 is the turning points to modernization of composition proposition. Far-sighted personages probed into the causes of composition proposition problem, and search for the modernization of composition theory and practice. Then, composition proposition had the trends of science and practicality, mainly including the contents of personal life and emotions, people's happiness and pain, the future and destiny of the motherland. Narration, argumentation, lyrical prose became major styles of writing in middle school.3) The period of twists and turns. The establishment of new China opened a new era in the history. Compared with the past, new China's educational thinking and direction of education has undergone a fundamental transformation. This change has been active for language education and brought about a new atmosphere. However, due to various reasons, secondary school students'writing ability has not been paid sufficient attention to, plan and order in composition proposition were terribly deficient. Companied with the "Education Revolution", composition teaching in secondary schools has been arbitrarily set with the political criteria. Although with the scholars'appeal, the interference of the ultra-left trend of thought in composition teaching made it of no fundamental change in political orientation. The value pursuit of Secondary School composition proposition went from and to the "external tool value (text)" and "internal ideological value (road)". With the breaking out "Cultural Revolution", composition teaching had been used as a tool for political struggle, the students are mainly writing "big-character poster" articles, with the theme of "revolution" and "rebellion". This kind of writings was of single structure, rigid format. Secondary school Composition proposition had been in a blind end.4) The period of regression and innovation. With the wiping out of the "Gang of Four", the "Cultural Revolution" ended, and China turned on a new leaf. Under the policy of emancipating the mind, putting things right, breaking the spirit bondages and the implementation of reform and opening up, Chinese people began the second pioneering work. The adjustment of social structure and cultural ideology of the transformation, development of education theory and innovation of writing theory all brought secondary school composition proposition gradually from the political arena to students'life in the world, and to the subject of writing. Secondary school composition proposition began to pay attention to the inspiration of the author's consciousness and the proposition methods became flexible. Students'compositions changed gradually from a single carrier into a window of their colorful mind. Before and after the 21st century, China' s pace of reform and opening up has quickened, the East-West exchanges have been frequent, and multi-cultural patterns formed. In this context, secondary school composition proposition has got a qualitative leap, being open, diverse and rich. "Happy expression", "free expression", "personal expression" and "humanity" has become a flag in secondary school composition teaching philosophy.The basic conclusions of this study are as follows:First, the contents of the secondary school composition proposition during four phrases mentioned above are different, but we can still find the general evolution track of secondary school composition propositions over a hundred years:First, the contents of proposition converted from utilitarian to humanism. The a century-long secondary school composition followed the pace of changing times, undergoing twists and turns, and the propositional contents moved from "career utilitarian", "modern practicality, " "revolutionary political" to external contemplation of the inner world of human feelings and the building of the unique human health psychology. It moved step by step from the main body of the hardship and ease into the subject' s consciousness and freedom. Second, the propositional forms became diversified from singularity. After the establishment of the Chinese subject, secondary school composition proposition has experienced three great changes:fixed-title composition, composition based on materials and topic composition. Each change is a kind of exploration. Each type has its own strengths, not to replace the other, but the overall trend is moving forward. Writing evolves from single political papers to the practical writing and narration. Today students' essays cover almost all the literary genres.Secondly, over the hundred years, secondary school composition changes in content and form of propositions is by no means occasional, with each being the product of the specific thinking pattern. The characteristics of propositions at each stage are related to the language education concept on a particular stage. Throughout the century, the three Chinese teaching ideas had a direct and profound impact on secondary school writing. Secondary school composition propositions give a full interpretation of the development of language education ideas from "social standard" to "people-orientation". The evolution of High School Composition proposition over the hundred years profoundly reflects people's in-depth understanding of the nature of language education and its function. Today's school composition proposition seems to have the potential to return to the second period, but that does not mean of the simple cycle of history; history left us with a useful reflection.Thirdly, in the new century, the composition proposition in middle school should hold high the people-oriented banner. This has a lot to do with the laws of the development of the proposition. At the same time, it is decided by the thought of Chinese education which constraints it from development. However, how to put the principle of "people-orientation" into effect is a question, which deserves thinking about. We should recognize the practical values of the composition accurately, understand its basic requirements and fully grasp its principles and strategies. To look further at the future of the proposition, we have reason to believe that with the development of the investigation and practicing "people-orientation", writing a composition will become the most enjoyable thing. During the process of writing, students will represent their own characteristics, unleash their souls and devote their holy innovation.