VietNamNet Bridge – Students find literature a boring subject,
while teachers feel tired of teaching because there is no room for their
creativeness.
When literature lessons make
students bored to death
Nguyen Thanh Huyen, an 11th
grader of the NT High School in Hanoi, said she and other classmates usually
succumb to sleep during literature lessons.
“We get tired of our busy
learning schedule, and we don’t have time to be sensitive to the interesting
and beautiful of literature works,” Huyen said.
“Meanwhile, the boring lessons
cannot help us love the subject. The teachers talk and talk, and we simply take
notes on our books. Later, when attending exams, we would only have to recite
the teachers’ words to pass the exams,” she explained.
“We need to repeat the ideas we
receive from teachers when we attend the exams. There is no room for the
feelings of your own,” she added.
Dr. Trinh Thu Tuyet from the Chu
Van An High School in Hanoi, who has been teaching literature for the last 30
years, has also noted that students nowadays reluctantly attend literature
lessons, because they need to pass literature exams to go on to the next
grades.
“Students fall asleep during the
literature lessons because the things they listen in the class have no
relations to them. They feel as the teachers try to stuff their heads with
nonsense,” Tuyet said.
A literature teacher from a high
school in Hanoi has pointed out that the currently applied curricula are not attractive
to students.
For example, students are
requested to learn about the ancient literature with the works dated back to
hundreds of years ago. Therefore, students cannot find any interests in the
pieces of works.
Students nowadays learn
literature not because they can find the interests in the subject, but just
because they can receive sufficient knowledge to attend the university entrance
exams. Meanwhile, fewer students nowadays decide to follow social science studies;
therefore, they do not think they need to study literature.
What to do to provoke students’
love to literature?
In an effort to revive the
students’ love to literature, the Ministry of Education has to organize a
national workshop on teaching literature at general schools.
Associate Prof Do Ngoc Thong from
the Vietnam Institute of Education Science, while emphasizing the need of
renovating the curricula, said it’s necessary to apply a new teaching method
which encourages students to think, raise questions and find the answers to the
questions. This would help awake the creativeness of students.
“It’s a taboo to try to stuff
students’ heads with too many things and force them to remember all the things
mechanically,” he said.
Tuyet also said that the thing
teachers need to do is to enhance the students’ sense to pieces of literature
works, not to give students sample essays or impose their ideas about artistic
pieces of works.
Critics have many times voiced
their disagreement with the currently applied teaching method, under which
students are told to repeat exactly what the teachers say.
At primary schools, when asking
students to write an essay, teachers would expect their students to write
exactly what they told them before, while they would not be satisfactory if the
students write on their way.
A parent complained that the
teacher of her daughter wanted her students to describe their grandfathers as
“having white hair.” Therefore, the girl received a bad mark just because she
wrote that her grandfather has “black hair” because he does not have to work
hard.
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