Ruan Zhen ’Middle School Chinese Teaching’ Review

Ruan Zhen, a reputable educator in Chinese language education in 1930 s, comprehensively analysed various aspects of education of Chinese language from different perspectives, rooted on special social background and curent condition education. In his Pedagogics of Chinese Language in Middle School containing all his prolonged experiences of practing and studying, methods of teaching are stated logically and systematically about the skopos of teaching, machanism of editing Chinese language textbooks, pedagogics of writing, auxiliary programs and particular designed programs.This theise focuses on the details in Pedagogics of Chinese Language in Middle School and inspirations and references drawn from this book on Chinese language educating including spirits of teacher in knowledge, scientific methods of research and pragmatical teaching ideology. It spreads out in three parts, induction, body, with five chapters and conclusion.The introduction gives a brief introduction of Ruan Zhen and his book Pedagogics of Chinese Language in Middle School, combs researches on educating concepts of Ruan Zhen and the work and illustrates the necessaries of this paper.The first chapter is about intentions to education of Chinese language in junior middle schools and senior middle schools.The second chapter details the machanism of editing Chinese language textbooks from the principles of picking resources, classification of textbooks, organization of materials and distribution of data.In the third chapter, based on the criterions of procedure in teaching writing, pedagogics of writing is described including standards of grading, how to assign a topic, method of practising, rules and guidance in wring and judging system.The fourth chapter maily disscusses courses set for Chinese language, with auxiliary programs and particular designed programs.The fifth chapter,Ruan Zhen of the middle school Chinese teaching method to strict criticism of the academic spirit,scientific rigorous research methods and pay attention to practical teaching of ideological features,for modern language teaching and its spirit of research,logic system,material selected,composition teaching and to the student language ability culture has certain enlightenment.The conclusion refers to the value and significance of teaching concepts in Ruan Zhen’s Pedagogics of Chinese Language in Middle School and points out the shortcomings of this thesis.