Self-recognition Fostering & Middle School Prose Teaching

In the foreword of "Chinese New Literature - Prose II", Mr. Yudafu states, "the biggest characteristic of modern prose today is that every author or prose expresses more stronger personality compared to that of the past". "Personality Expression" represents a fundamental progress of modern prose in terms of its role of expression, for instance, self-finding of oneself and a harmony communications between oneself and a society etc. As a result, prose cannot be ignored due to its great advantage of educating human beings. The objects of Chinese teaching in middle school are young teenagers who are growing at their critical and most absorbable age in their lives. For this unique group of people, it has become very important to have them realize what they really are and what human beings mean. To achieve this, prose is able to provide teenagers the possibility of interpreting themselves and the world they are in not only from a literature perspective but also from a culture point of view. This thesis analyzes and discusses the above issues, investigates its root causes and explores new approaches and strategies that are more positive and practical in prose teaching. There are a total five sections of this thesis:Section 1: Describe the characteristics of modern prose in regards to its expression of "high freedom". Indicate prose's great advantages of" relieve of personality" over poem, novel and play by making comparison.Section 2: Review the history of prose. Explain the passive expression of "social role" of traditional Chinese prose and the initiative finding of author's "personal role" of modern prose. Point out the key function of prose teaching: help to enhance students' self-recognition and prepare them for stepping into the society.Section 3: Point out current weaknesses of prose teaching in middle school such as conflicts between "society" and "oneself; and the trend of standardization in politics and morality.Section 4: Analyze the limitation in terms of environment and evaluation system: weakness of prose's theory and its undesirable result due to current evaluation system and the consequence of preaching the morality.Section 5: Provide strategies and recommendations of improving prose teaching,including setting up the theory of broad sense of Chinese,settling the conflicts of will among state ,teacher and student and enjoying the freedom in rules.