张志公同志在河南省中学语文教学研究会第二次年会上的讲话,谈到语文教学“不管用”“两不沾”的积弊,很值得语文教学工作者的注意。他说,我们的语文教学需要创新局面,那就意味着原来有点旧局面。语文教学有什么旧局面呢?这个旧局面来源于旧传统。传统的特点是什么呢?大体说来是这样:开始是识字,用一段时间念选文,选文就相当于咱们现在的语文课文。编法就是选古今名文几十篇,逐篇加上点简要的评注。那时的书面语言与口头语言已经相距很远,差别很大。因此,先生就需要串讲,学生就需要背诵,这是一方面。再一方面就是由分解动作到综合训练的写八股文。这个老传 Comrade Zhang Zhigong spoke at the second annual meeting of the Henan Province High School Chinese Language Teaching Research Society and spoke of the shortcomings of Chinese teaching “no use” and “two non-sticks” which are worth the attention of Chinese teaching workers. He said that our language teaching needs innovation, which means that the original situation a little bit old. What is the old situation of Chinese teaching? The old situation comes from the old tradition. What are the traditional characteristics? In general, this is the case: the beginning is literacy, electoral essay with a period of time, the essay is equivalent to our current language text. Code is to select the ancient and modern essays dozens of articles, each chapter with a brief commentary. At that time the written language and spoken language have been far apart, very different. Therefore, Mr. need to string, students need to recite, this is one hand. On the other hand, it is the writing of eight-part essay from decomposition to comprehensive training. This old pass