Wei Shusheng Language Education And Teaching Reform Retrospective

It is an information era now, the knowledge that one acquires at school is limited, and he or she must continue to learn as much as possible. As a result, life-long education becomes a tendency in the development of the society. But the traditional teaching methods pay less attention to the self-teach ability of the students and cannot meet the needs of modern education. Wei Shusheng, a reformer in the field of Chinese , broke the teaching routines, changed the teaching method which emphases teaching to one which concerns more about learning in order to enable the students to get the necessary knowledge by teaching themselves and become the masters of studying.Wei's contribution to Chinese teaching is the research of learning methods, the author tries to analyze the reasons why the students are successful in learning Chinese on the basis of the theories and practices of Chinese teaching. At the same time, the Chinese teachers can learn a lot from this and become more qualified Chinese teachers. "To Learn from Wei Shusheng before one can be a good teacher." In teaching practices, the teachers should be good at borrowing and combine the theories and practices well. Owing to limitation of the textbooks and evaluation of exam-orientation, Wei's reforms on Chinese teaching are nor complete and even have disadvantages. We can learn a lot and carry out the new cumcular criteria well by recalling Wei's reforms on Chinese teaching.Reform is a permanent thesis in whatever Wei's reforms on Chinese teaching or reforms on new curricular criteria. But the reform in a certain era has its own era characteristics, so we can say that we cannot reform it to the best but we can reform it to better. We cannot ask more from Wei just like we cannot ask more the ancient people. The final aim of studying Wei is that we can find the rules of teaching and promote the development of Chinese teaching.To make the students more creative and more practical and improve the overall quality of teaching and education, the reforms on the basic educational curricular is carrying out through out the country which provide an opportunity and a stage for reforming on Chinese teaching, more and more Weis will appear and a spring for the reforming on Chinese teaching will come.