Recently, the news disclosed at the awarding ceremony of the third beautiful Chinese character essay activity of the "Chinese self-study cup" shocked the students, parents and teachers who came to receive the prize, and also caused heated discussion inside and outside the venue.
It is understood that this beautiful Chinese character essay activity has attracted the active participation of more than 600 primary schools, with more than 30,000 entries. Many excellent works have been recognized by the judges, but unfortunately, plagiarism or essays with obvious traces of adults grasping the knife will be found from time to time during the marking process.
A fourth-grade student wrote down his feelings of participating in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake memorial activities: "At that moment, I shed tears in silence!" " In fact, the students just turned 1 that year.
A fifth-grade student wrote "past lives in Wenchuan", which was full of long and gorgeous parallelism sentences that even writers lamented. A search on the Internet proved to be plagiarism.
Even the title should be copied in the sketch, and the "Wuzhen Water Rhyme" written in some paragraphs of the famous sketch "Zhouzhuang Water Rhyme" by the writer Zhao was directly copied.
Wang, editor-in-chief of "Chinese Self-study" and professor of Chinese Department of East China Normal University, said that the organizers spent a lot of manpower, checked each paper strictly and meticulously with reference to the duplicate checking standard of undergraduate graduation thesis, and resolutely canceled the winning qualification of plagiarized students.
Participants in this essay-writing activity are all primary school students in grades three to five. So, who taught children to copy?
The organizer once published a questionnaire survey on the official WeChat account. Among the more than 40,000 parents who participated in the survey, 4 1% parents said that they would help their children with their homework every day, and as many as 60% parents had helped their children with their compositions.
Wang analyzed that parents are keen to help their children write compositions for two reasons:
The first is to help children reduce their academic pressure.
Second, I hope to help children win prizes through the touch-up of parents.
However, it is precisely because of the "kindness" of parents that they did not help their children, but lost the opportunity to participate in the competition because of plagiarism.
Jing Hongchun, the judge of this essay and a special Chinese teacher at Minhang Teachers College, said that what parents should do is to feel the fun of writing with their children. This is a process of companionship, and they can't take over. Parental love should not be an obstacle to children's progress, and temporary compromise and connivance will have an unimaginable negative impact on children's future.
In an interview, he said: "In this essay, the outstanding thing is about' non-legacy'. Many excellent works are written by children by combining' non-legacy' with traditional culture and their daily life, which I think is very good. The most important thing of this kind of articles is to write their feelings and experiences about traditional culture, rather than pursuing a profound cultural level. Children can only write their own culture. "
The winning composition is full of childlike descriptions, which also makes the judges and teachers greatly appreciate: "In the process of marking papers, I feel that many children are full of language application ability. I hope more children can use his pen to write his heart, write his childhood and express his childlike interest. "