China News Service, Beijing, September 25 (Reporter Gao Kai) The Ministry of Education of China announced on its official website a few days ago the "Suggestions on Enhancing Cultural Confidence, Increasing Chinese Cultural Content Teaching Reform and Reducing the Proportion of English Teaching" to deputies to the National People's Congress. reply.
"English learning is necessary, but it doesn't need to take that long." "To reform the English teaching method, it is no longer for the sole purpose of taking the high school entrance examination, but for oral dialogue and daily use." "Increase or increase Teaching traditional Chinese culture, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, allows children to come into contact with our Chinese culture at a critical time when their world outlook is formed, and increase our cultural pride and cultural self-confidence from an early age. At the Fifth Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress, a proposal was put forward on "reducing the proportion of English teaching and taking the proportion of the test score".
The Ministry of Education pointed out in its reply that the proportion of foreign language class hours in primary and secondary schools is lower than that of Chinese and other subjects.
Foreign language is an important part of the comprehensive development of students’ moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor skills. It helps to cultivate and develop students’ core qualities such as language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality, and learning ability, and cultivate students’ Chinese feelings, international vision, and cross-cultural communication skills.
The "Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan (2022 Edition)" stipulates that the proportion of class hours for each subject is: Chinese 20%-22%, mathematics 13%-15%, physical education and health 10%-11%, foreign language 6%-8%, etc. .
According to the "General High School Curriculum Plan (2017 Version Revised in 2020)", the proportion of compulsory foreign language credit hours in general high schools accounts for about 7% of the total compulsory credit hours.
Foreign language class hours are significantly lower than Chinese, mathematics, physical education, art and other subjects.
The Ministry of Education made it clear in its reply that the proportion of foreign language examinations should be determined according to the requirements of the central government.
In 2014, the State Council of China issued the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Examination and Enrollment System", which clearly stipulated that the Chinese, mathematics, and foreign language subjects of the unified college entrance examination should remain unchanged, and the scores will remain unchanged.
At this stage, the arrangement of the unified foreign language examination is determined according to the top-level design of the central government for the reform of the college entrance examination.
In its reply, the Ministry of Education stated that Chinese, moral and legal (ideological and political), history and other disciplines should be organically integrated into Chinese excellent traditional education.
Compulsory education and regular high school curriculum materials further strengthen the education of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
Pay attention to the reform of the content of the college entrance examination. The proposition of the college entrance examination is based on the curriculum standards of high schools and the requirements for talent selection in colleges and universities, and a content system for comprehensive examination of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor is established.
In recent years, it has focused on examining the relevant content of Chinese excellent traditional culture through various forms, guiding students to enhance their national identity and national pride, and strengthen their ideals and beliefs.
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