English reform

It can be seen that the college entrance examination has not weakened the importance of English, but consolidated the absolute position of the three main courses of Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages. English is tested twice a year, which indicates that English has taken the lead in breaking through the traditional college entrance examination system of "one exam determines life", so that students have many opportunities to refresh their English scores in the college entrance examination throughout the high school stage. Its purpose is twofold. First, it distracts the study pressure and pays attention to the usual accumulation, instead of thinking about attacking English until the third year of high school; The second is to disperse psychological pressure, so that students have the opportunity to challenge themselves many times and start over.

It can be predicted that the result of this policy change will be that there will be two main lines in children's senior high school English learning, one is the' textbook main line' that daily school teaching pays attention to, and the other is the' examination main line' that sprints for the college entrance examination from the first year of high school. The former is determined by the syllabus, that is, school teachers must complete the English teaching task in senior high school for three years according to the requirements of the syllabus; The latter is determined by the new policy of college entrance examination-since the state allows students to take the exam twice a year, it is certain that most students are willing to take every opportunity to' brush their marks', just like many students preparing for overseas exams such as TOEFL and IELTS,' even if their previous grades are not satisfactory, they should experience it several times first and accumulate experience in the examination room'. Therefore, in addition to daily school English study, students are likely to be willing to have a lot of extra-curricular English tutoring with institutions and teachers with rich test-taking experience, obvious scoring effect and strong teaching pertinence, so as to consolidate and improve their test scores and cope with the semi-annual college entrance examination English test opportunities.

Third, the preparation suggestions

20 14 is the first year of NMET English reform. Although the "policy reform" has not yet been implemented, all provinces have carried out important project reforms. The reform of question types in various provinces has sent us a signal: English in college entrance examination is still important, and the ability of children is required to be higher.

In terms of' basic knowledge', the new college entrance examination pays more attention to the' perceptual ability' of language. The traditional era of memorizing word grammar has long passed. Only the vital English knowledge learned in the context can help you win the college entrance examination. For example, the story-telling mini-cloze was added to the Shandong volume, and the traditional topic of "single choice" was deleted and replaced by the topic of "grammar fill in the blank" with a strong sense of context, all of which reflected the requirements of the new NMET English for "language vitality".

In terms of' ability to take exams', the new college entrance examination pays more attention to the ability to use language knowledge to solve practical problems. For example, this feature is reflected in the deletion of the flashy' talking about pictures' in the Beijing volume and its replacement with a concise and pragmatic' practical article'. In addition, the three traditional questions in the provincial examination papers-reading comprehension, cloze and writing-have not changed much, which is equivalent to telling us that the difficulty of college entrance examination English has not changed significantly, and candidates should not relax their attention to English in the future. This year's senior three students should not only pay attention to the real questions in this province over the years, but also seriously study the questions in volumes 1 and 2 of Shanghai, Zhejiang and the national new curriculum standards.

The result of English test is the comprehensive result of basic knowledge and test-taking ability. It is difficult for children to bring what they have learned into play in the examination room by learning only the basic knowledge and ignoring the cultivation of their ability to take exams. And blindly clinging to' problem-solving skills' and ignoring the study of basic knowledge will make children's grades lack' stamina'. Only by systematically learning the basic knowledge, scientifically cultivating the ability to take exams, not avoiding the real questions and not giving up the necessary efforts can children steadily improve their grades.

20 17 English reform in NMET has added an examination opportunity: strengthening the consideration of listening and speaking.

Will English become weaker after the reform?

Experts say that the reform has little impact on NMET English.

According to the Opinions, foreign languages still take the national unified examination like Chinese and mathematics, with the same score, but with an additional examination opportunity.

According to the previous draft of Weibo College Entrance Examination Reform Plan, it is proposed to reduce the proportion of English subject scores in college entrance examination enrollment, and the full English score will be reduced from 150 to 100.

Weibo, president of China English Teaching Research Association and director of China Foreign Language Education Research Center of Beijing Foreign Studies University, participated in a special discussion organized by a foreign language magazine in Shanghai. Two months ago, they wrote a report against reducing the proportion of English in the college entrance examination and handed it over to the relevant departments.

The above-mentioned core experts who participated in this round of reform system design revealed to the Beijing News reporter that they advocated evaluating and scoring English according to the results, but "there was great resistance in the discussion", and finally it was stipulated that the scores should be calculated according to the scores, and the scores remained unchanged.

"This reform has little impact on the college entrance examination English." Wen believes that, first of all, foreign language performance remains unchanged; Secondly, it is not impossible to increase the chances of being admitted. For example, TOEFL [Weibo] and IELTS [Weibo] organize multiple exams a year, but it is necessary to ensure that the two exams are similar in difficulty. The first pilot projects in Shanghai and Zhejiang are also based on the consideration that the reform should be carried out cautiously.

Due to the changes in the test types of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination in Beijing this year, Chinese has strengthened the assessment of traditional culture, and English has strengthened the consideration of listening and speaking ability.

Therefore, at the beginning of the new semester, many schools have made appropriate adjustments to the daily teaching content according to the changes in the wind vane of examination reform. The reporter learned that traditional cultural courses such as Chinese studies, Quju and Taiji entered the "curriculum" in the new semester. In addition, listening and speaking training accounts for half of English classes.

English and academic proficiency tests increase opportunities.

According to the Opinions, foreign language subjects provide two examination opportunities. For the academic level examination, all localities should reasonably arrange the curriculum and examination time, and create conditions to provide students with the opportunity to take the same subject examination twice. This means that four of the six subjects included in the total score of the college entrance examination will have two exam opportunities.

Teacher Huang, an English teacher in Yangjiang No.1 Middle School, believes that there are two exams in English, which increases students' chances of taking the exam. "If students can take the exam once in Grade Two and once in Grade Three, the learning pressure will be dispersed, especially for students with poor psychological quality but good English scores, which is good news for them."

Lu Junyu, who graduated from high school this year, is very much in favor of providing students with two opportunities. "I didn't do well in the English test in the college entrance examination this year. At ordinary times, the score is about 1 10. I don't know if I filled in the answer sheet wrong this time, only 66 points. If I have two chances, I can be admitted to an ideal university. " Lu Junyu felt that he had not encountered reform, which was very regrettable.

Reducing and standardizing test scores is beneficial to the fairness of college entrance examination.

"It is a highlight to cancel the extra points for special students such as sports and art, which is fairer to most candidates." Teacher Cheng said that Yangjiang is an underdeveloped area, and these bonus points are generally concentrated in big cities and developed areas, so this reform is fairer to remote areas such as Yangjiang.

The reporter interviewed many teachers. The teachers interviewed generally said that few students in Yangjiang enjoyed extra points in sports and art during the college entrance examination, mainly in developed cities. Many parents also believe that there are a lot of tricky points for special students such as sports and art. "Some students who have more money and connections at home will find ways to achieve extra points." Chen's parents said.

■ worry

The importance of two English exams has increased.

Will weaken the position of numerals

"Why can English be tested twice, while Chinese mathematics has only one chance? This is unfair to China mathematics. " Teacher Chen, who is in charge of teaching management, thinks that mathematics in China is equally important to China people, especially China people. After entering the work, the influence of Chinese on a person is more obvious.

Student Cheng said: "Poor Chinese literature will also affect your understanding of other subjects." He believes that taking two English exams will increase the time teachers and students spend on this subject and have a lot of influence on other subjects.

The test pressure is advanced,

14 subject should not be underestimated.

"If the arts and sciences are not divided into subjects, my daughter will have to take into account the three subjects of science and management, distract her energy and have great learning pressure." Ms. Lin is glad that her daughter didn't catch up with this reform. She believes that the implementation of "one exam at the end of the semester" and "one exam to the end" in subjects such as politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, etc. 14 means that the test pressure is ahead of schedule and plans should be made from the first year of high school. "The third year of high school is very stressful, and now I will be nervous from the first year of high school." Ms. Lin said.