提倡并指导学生坚持写课外随笔是培养学生语文读写能力的较为有效的一种辅助手段。课外随笔属于第二课堂的主要内容之一,它是语文第一课堂作文教学的一个基础,在强调培养学生自学能力的今天,其功效也愈加明显。如果把学生的课外比作是一个“小天地”,那么我们可以从这个“小天地”中看到学生学习与生活的一个“大世界”。从我所教的八五届高三两个班(一文一理)的实践情况看,约有三分之一的学生是由于坚持写随笔而明显地提高了读写能力的。今年 Advocating and instructing students to insist on writing extracurricular essays is a more effective aid to cultivate students’ language literacy. The extracurricular essay is one of the main contents of the second class. It is a foundation of the first class composition teaching in the Chinese language. In emphasizing on cultivating students’ self-learning ability, its effectiveness is becoming increasingly apparent. If we compare students’ extracurricular activities as a “little world”, then we can see a “big world” of student learning and life from this “little world”. Judging from the practice of the two classes (one article, one theory) that I taught in the 85th Senior High School, about one-third of students are obviously improving their literacy skills by insisting on writing essays. this year