Is the "false text" in the textbook true or false? Experts: don't hype.
origin: China Youth newspaper fan fant morning
"on the Internet, there are a lot of mistakes in the language textbooks for children, this is not Is it wrong? " Lao Hu, a two grade student in Haidian District, Beijing, said angrily.
recently, a headmaster was angry. How many other fake texts are insulting the IQ of the child? The post is widely circulated on the Internet, and the parent group of Lao Hu is busy.
in this online hot post lists a number of specific mistakes in the primary Chinese textbooks that are now being used, for example, the text in a version of the two grade textbook, "Edison saved the mother", "neither the textbook nor the teacher's teaching reference has indicated the author and source of the article." Moreover, according to historical data, Edison did not have appendicitis surgery at that time, and the contents described in the text did not exist at all. Again, for example, a version of the five grade book "the father and son in the earthquake", told the father to the school to help the son and son of the story, but according to several Chinese teachers' textual research, the Losangeles earthquake occurred at 4:31 in the early morning of the local time, the school in the early morning, how can the students?
in fact, not only this "false text" of the post has aroused people's attention, the changes in every primary and secondary school language teaching materials: the replacement of a writer's works, the increase or decrease in quantity, the change of the purpose of a class of text, and so on, can arouse the heated discussion of the public. Behind the heated debate of
is the public's interest in language education and the public's expectation of quality language textbooks.
, is it true that these "false texts" that are transmitted online? Why is there a disputed text? How should the public view the changes in Chinese textbooks? China Youth Daily Zhongqing online reporter interviewed experts, researchers and frontline teachers in the field of Chinese education, trying to give a more rational perspective.
language is not a historical textbook that can be criticized but not to hype
"this criticism of Chinese textbooks will appear every other time." Professor Wen Rumin, director of the Institute of language education, Peking University, said. A few years ago, some people broke the news that a version of junior middle school Chinese textbook found more than 30 mistakes, and even sent the publisher to court. Professor Wen Rumin found the material for the study found that the so-called more than 30 errors, the vast majority of the exaggerated, or the blowers themselves mistaken, the real wrong only five or six, and most of the fault of editing, such as punctuation incomplete, individual wrong words, and so on, no school to come out.
for this discussion more "false text" "Edison rescue mother", this less than 500 words of the story, said that Edison was 7 years old mother got appendicitis, the doctor came to the home to do the operation, but the light is too dark in the house. Edison was quick in his mind to gather the light of the oil lamp with a few mirrors, so that the doctor could successfully finish the operation and save his mother.
online tucking people said that there were no records of several Edison biographies, and people had "textual research" that the first appendicitis operation in the world was done in 1886, while Edison was 7 years old, and it was impossible to have this operation.
"in fact, the story of Edison's saving mother" is not a "Fabrication", but a way of coming. Wen Rumin introduced the movie "Young Tom Edison" which was filmed in 1940, and there was a plot of Edison saving her mother. Before the primary school Chinese experiment textbooks were selected, in the 1983 edition of fifth books and ninth classes in the English textbook of junior high school, a text entitled "Edison 's Boyhood" was selected, which was written to Edison to save the mother. The text of primary school language is based on these materials.
of course, this can not prove that Edison must have saved his mother when he was little. "Small stories belong to literary works, even if they have certain imagination and fiction, they can be tolerated." Wen Rumin said.
"language is not history." A primary school principal in Haidian District, Beijing, who did not want to be named, said, "in fact, there are two types of Chinese text, that is, realistic style and fictitious literature." Now, this question is not like discussing the question of "true" and "false", but rather giving vent to some emotion.
"teaching materials can be criticized, but don't be hyped up." Wen Rumin said.
"we can't make perfect textbooks." Beijing Institute of Education Basic Education Research Center Teaching and research staff even the Chinese teacher said, "found the wrong place, we will change." However, some of the contents of the text may involve in the depths of history. Some problems may involve not only a Chinese subject. Instead of changing or changing, it is not because a post on the Internet is fixed. It is a professional and authoritative expert who passes through repeated and careful textual research.
however, there are also experts point out the text selected in the textbook, if the selection of the material from a certain historical event, it should not be a knowledge error. The "fictitious" of a celebrity's story should also have a certain limit. It is best to make some relevant historical data. The personality and emotion of the celebrities should be in accordance with the character characteristics of the master.
especially today's primary and middle school students, because of the large amount of information in contact, the eye is open enough, "in the choice of text, we should not only check on the values, but also in fact." Yu Dangxu, a senior teacher in Shanghai and a Chinese teacher in the middle school affiliated to Shanghai Normal University, said that children need a process when they internalize their beliefs into their own beliefs. In this process, if the children find the fact that the right concept is false, they will connect with the correct idea itself. Sex is doubtful.