The Perplexation And Countermeasure During Teaching Composition In Middle School

No one can deny the fact that the teaching of composition in secondary schools is inefficient and the problem has existed for a long time. With the deepening of the new curriculum reform and the demands of the information era, reform in composition teaching is a must. Experts have brought up many suggestions, which have reached certain achievements. But they are applied to teaching practice, the result is far from being satisfactory. The writer of this thesis has been teaching for about 16 years, and has got much firsthand materials about teaching composition in secondary schools. With the help of questionnaires, the writer of the thesis has found out the crux of perplexity, that is, in teaching practice, not only is the systematic writing knowledge neglected, but also the presentation of materials are seriously deficient in the textbooks. This results in the fact that the teaching of composition seriously depart from personality, and it tends to be"formulaic, procedure-oriented and adult-oriented"; teaching concepts are rather conservative, teaching methods are rigid, teaching means are monotonous and the teaching process is sterile. Owing to the above mentioned, students generally regard composition as difficult and dull.The writer of this thesis tries to find out the solutions to these problems and apply the theory in teaching practice, that is, to combine reading and writing together in order to break through the limitations of the monotonous way of passage-analyzing in reading class and to make up for the deficiency of systematic writing knowledge in the textbooks; to bring in personality in teaching composition in place of"formulaic, procedure-oriented and adult-oriented"composition writing; to arouse the students'interest in writing and conquer their fear of it by switching their attention from the small classroom to nature, society and real life so as to get plenty of topics and sufficient writing materials; to make the best of the advantage of the Internet to solve the problems mentioned above.This thesis tries to provide practical theory for teaching composition in secondary schools, and the writer of this thesis sincerely hopes that it would be of some help to the teaching of composition in secondary schools.