On Teaching Chinese Classical Essay Of High School

Classical essays, which hold a dominant position in Chinese textbooks, are the essence of the writings in classical Chinese. So how to satisfy the new requirements of the new course standards and to keep pace with the course reform is really a question for us to consider when teaching classical essays in classical Chinese.The Ministry of Education worked out the course standards for high school Chinese teaching in 2003. The students are required to have some ability of learning the works in classical Chinese and accumulate some knowledge of classical writings with the aid of definitions and reference books. They are also required to master the meanings and usages of notional words, function words and sentence patterns as well. Learning by analogy is highly valued. Learning to understand the contents of classical works from the angle of the development of history helps to absorb the national wisdom and spirits and form a hard foundation of learning traditional culture. Classical essays are bound to be chosen to test students' reading abilities of the writings in classical Chinese in the entrance examination and the ability level is B. The questions have changed from multiple choices to multiple choices and translations (2002), which shows that topic assignments of the classical essays lay much emphasis on the distinction of students' ability levels. This can help to reform traditional teaching mode and improve students' reading and analytical abilities.At present, the researches of teaching in high school classical essays are mainly at home, people try to figure out the guidance of the entrance examination and pay attention to key points, they strengthen the training of reading skills and induce reading abilities before examinations. However, if we can combine the research findings with the improvement of students' overall abilities, we will get a much better outcome.This article first briefly explores the history of teaching classical essays and then makes research on classical essays according to the new course standards and the present situation of teaching. In the guidance of the theory of sociology, students are encouraged to gain the knowledge of the family background, living periods, political and ideological tendencies of the authors and to build healthy morality and strengthen humanistic cultivation. By making research on language feeling and aesthetic feeling, teachers tend to make the students sense the beauty of perceptual and rational language and the beauty of emotional and humorous language. According to the requirements of the new course standards, the writer of the article tries to find an ideal balance among teachers, students, textbooks and language learning environments. Teaching assessments of high school Chinese classical essays and the way of testing have also been discussed.Adolescents are ready to seek knowledge and they are curious about everything. They will be interested in learning when they have adapted to the teaching methods the teachers use. So the combination of students' interests and proper teaching methods is the key to the success in the teaching classical essays. And it also meets...