语言学家总是说“人是修辞的动物”。小孩是不自觉地修辞,大人则是在自觉地修辞,而小学生则是从“不自觉”修辞到“自觉”修辞过程的起步者。小学阶段是言语生命养护的重要时期,在这个时期教师要做好引导者、养护者和培养者的角色。本人从事小学中高年级教学已有几十年的时间,深感作文教学之艰巨,学生言语生命成长之路上遇到的困难如大海之波澜。 Linguists always say that “people are rhetorical animals.” Children are unconsciously rhetorical, adults are consciously rhetorical, while pupils are from the beginning of the “unconscious” rhetoric to “conscious” rhetorical process. Primary stage is an important period of speech life maintenance, during which teachers should be good guides, maintainers and cultivators. I have been engaged in middle school and high school teaching for several decades, and have been experiencing the arduous task of writing teaching and the difficulties encountered by students in the growth of their speech life, such as the waves of the sea.