Study Textbooks Thoroughly, Reduce Brushing Questions What reform signals did the language test questions in this year's college entrance examination reveal?

What reform signals did the language test questions reveal in this year's college entrance examination?

Learn through the textbook and reduce mechanical brushing questions

On June 6, the 7 national college entrance examination kicked off. Every year, the college entrance examination is the focus of social attention, and the high popularity on the one hand represents people's concern for education, on the other hand, people can also understand the direction of China's education reform through the changes in the college entrance examination questions.

After the completion of the Chinese subjects of the college entrance examination this year, the reporter of China Youth Daily interviewed language education experts and front-line teachers for the first time to analyze the four sets of college entrance examination language test papers ordered by the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education: the national A paper, the national B paper, the new course standard I paper, and the new course standard II paper. A number of experts said that this year's test questions fully implement the spirit of the 4th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, deepen the reform of examination content, promote the teaching reform of basic education courses, serve the selection of top-notch innovative talents, encourage students to cultivate feelings, temper morality, and strengthen their hearts in the process of learning and using the words and Chinese writings of the ancestors, and guide the majority of young people to be brave in innovation, thinking and practice, and set sail in the new era with determination to move forward.

At the same time, many experts pointed out that this year's college entrance examination language test paper revealed a clear signal: we must study the textbook thoroughly and do not put too much energy into brushing up on the questions.

Five Cultivations Together: Bacon forges the soul in the context of language

The use of spoken and written language is widely present in all fields of social life, and the educational value of language disciplines is reflected in the context of language.

"These four sets of examination papers reflect the overall direction of Bacon's soul casting, and pursue the implementation of the overall goal of cultivating virtue and cultivating people in the context of language." Wang Benhua, editor of the People's Education Publishing House and chairman of the Middle School Language Teaching Professional Committee of the China Education Society, said.

The 2023 college entrance examination language test questions are organically integrated into Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, guiding the majority of young people to enhance the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve "two safeguards", understand the power of truth, and master ideological methods. The materials of the National Writing Test for Volume B and the New Curriculum Standard Volume II Modern Reading I are excerpted from General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech.

"Patriotism is the national heart and soul of the Chinese nation. To cultivate socialist builders and successors, we must first cultivate students' patriotic feelings. Lu Jianming, a professor at Peking University, said that the 2023 college entrance examination language test questions guide candidates to establish a correct view of history, nationality, country and culture, enhance patriotic awareness and patriotic feelings, and enhance national pride and self-confidence.

In addition, this year's college entrance examination language test questions also selected materials that embody the concepts of moral, aesthetic, physical education, and labor education, emphasizing the integration of labor education with moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, and guiding candidates to firmly establish the concept of the most glorious labor, the most noble labor, the greatest labor, and the most beautiful labor, and truly know how to respect ordinary workers. For example, in the reading questions of literary texts in this year's National Volume A, Ba Jin's prose "Mechanical Poems - One of the Essays on the Journey" was selected, which praised the poetry of machinery as having "the joy of creation" and "spreading life", shaping the image of workers from a unique perspective, praising labor, and guiding candidates to think that behind the "mechanical poems" is the hard work of workers.

Open up knowledge points Improve students' ability to comprehensively apply knowledge

"The completion of many tasks in real life is almost not completed by relying on a single knowledge point, or even by a single subject, and this year's college entrance examination language test questions emphasize comprehensiveness, students should open up knowledge points, conduct multi-angle analysis of materials, and test students' ability to comprehensively use knowledge." Shen Jiliang, a professor at Beijing Normal University, said.

Many experts hold the same view, believing that this year's test questions have increased the examination of students' thinking and guided candidates to improve their logical thinking ability, image thinking ability and scientific thinking ability. For example, the National Paper A Writing Test materials give the topic of "people, technology, and time", but do not make other excessive restrictions, leaving room for candidates to think. The test question materials are very concise, and candidates need to mobilize the ability of association, transfer, reasoning, etc., to find problems, identify problems, form opinions, and carry out arguments. Candidates can also express their feelings and thoughts through narrative, lyricism, etc.

Can Chinese cultivate the scientific literacy of young people? This year's college entrance examination language test questions gave an affirmative answer.

"Science is not only a collection of knowledge in physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines, but also a correct way of thinking to understand and think about the world." Experts on language propositions in the college entrance examination said that for example, through popular science articles with both literary quality and beauty to stimulate candidates' curiosity, imagination and desire for inquiry in science, the ability to reason, criticize and discover in the reading of speculative articles, and the thinking methods such as combing and exploring, summarizing and verifying hypotheses in the reading of scientific papers and treatises, so as to cultivate a truth-seeking and realistic attitude. The practical text reading materials of the first and second volumes of the country are respectively excerpted from the German popular science writer Peter Wolleben's "The Secret Life of the Tree" and the British writer Robert Macfarlane's "Journey into Deep Time", which aims to disseminate scientific ideas and advocate scientific methods.

Linking the examination and teaching Guide the front line to thoroughly understand the teaching materials

Many experts said that the college entrance examination has always been called the "baton" of education, so it is necessary to play a good role in the baton.

Front-line teachers have always had such troubles: the content on the language test paper is relatively low in relation to the textbook, and some people even say, "If there is anything in the textbook, you will not test anything for the college entrance examination."

"It is really difficult to come up with the questions in the language test, and it is certainly not possible to copy the original text in the book, but it is not enough to completely abandon the textbook, there are too many materials to choose from, and if you blindly expand the scope of material selection, it will infinitely increase the burden on teachers and students." Shen Jiliang said.

This year's college entrance examination language test questions properly link the test questions with the teaching materials. The ninth question of reading literary texts in the new course standard I requires candidates to write an idea about a short review of the work, "This proposition is related to the learning task in the textbook." Wang Benhua said that the third unit of the compulsory high school volume of the unified Chinese textbook has the learning task of "learning to write literary short reviews", and students can quickly think of the exercises they have done in class. For another example, "Lu Xun's "Social Play" appears in the options for the literary text reading questions in the second volume of the new course standard, which is the content that students have been exposed to in junior high school, and candidates will definitely feel very cordial after seeing it.

"The selection of test topics is related to teaching materials, which is to guide teachers and students to use teaching materials well and thoroughly understand them." Shen Jiliang said that it is necessary to reverse the utilitarian tendency of front-line teaching, and make efforts to improve the quality of classrooms, consolidate the knowledge base, and cultivate ability and literacy.

Innovative propositional form Guide the front line to reduce mechanical brushing questions

According to experts on language propositions in the college entrance examination, this year's college entrance examination language test questions use a variety of new question types, and there are also differences in the same module test questions in different volumes. This move sends a clear signal: improving scores depends on the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of ability literacy, and the "gains" of rote memorization and mechanical brushing questions will become smaller and smaller.

For example, the new course standard II writing question "Youth Own Space" is a combination of reading and writing questions, the material is derived from the materials of other modules in the test paper, and the reading and writing combination test questions are the newly introduced question types, and it is meaningless for students to rely on mechanical brushing questions when preparing for the exam.

According to proposition experts, the 4 sets of Chinese sentence questions ordered by the Education Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education require candidates to choose 8 correct sentences from 3 break points, which also avoids the possibility of candidates simply using elimination, guessing and other skills to answer, effectively examines students' ability to read and understand classical Chinese, and guides candidates to carefully read the original text and truly understand the meaning.

"In general, this year's college entrance examination language test paper not only tests knowledge, but also tests ability." Lu Jianming said that in order to improve language ability, we cannot rely on rote memorization and mechanical brushing of questions, but must "read diligently, read more, and read well."

Beijing, 6 Jun (Jiefangjun Bao) --

China Youth Daily / China Youth Net reporter Fan Weichen Source: China Youth Daily