Generally speaking, "writing" is easier than "speaking". It takes five minutes to make a phone call (five minutes can say a thousand sentences), and it may only take three or five sentences to write a letter. Lao Li said to Xiao Wang on the phone, "Would you like to have dinner together tomorrow afternoon?" 6: 30, Huibin Building, Zhonghua Road. Do you know this restaurant? In renren department store. Let me see how you get there by bus. That road is a one-way street. Don't take Chengdu Road. Go around the north gate and stop at the entrance of Huibin Building. Ok, it's a deal. Tomorrow afternoon, at 6: 30, let's meet at the guest house. First come, first served, we will arrive. "If you don't call, but write, the number of words is much less. At least, there will be no such thing as "let me think", because you can't write a letter until you think about it. There is no need to repeat the time and place, because those who have read the letter can read it again. It can be seen that when words become "texts", many words are often deleted, which is what writers often call "conciseness". Anyone who takes notes in meetings or speeches has recorded this experience. Literally, there is always less written than said.
Look at the compositions of students who can only talk but can't write in my eyes, and I have made new discoveries. Although their compositions are not long, most of them are fluent in clauses, prominent in the center and concise in language. The so-called "speaking" before, because of the randomness of spoken English, although a lot is said, but after careful scrutiny, in fact, there are many places that look complicated and verbose. I can't feel it when I speak, but when I write it down, that is, when I turn my spoken language into my inner language (what I think in my mind) and then my inner language into written language (written in writing), I think I should "slim down" my spoken language. Because when writing written language, we have more time than speaking. We can think before writing, write while thinking, and write while thinking. After writing, you can ponder and revise it repeatedly. In this way, the language will be more scientific, rigorous, concise and accurate than oral English.
I have a deep feeling about this. I remember one time I had to attend an open class, and I recorded the classroom teaching when I was grinding the class. When watching the video, I found that my language was not concise, my speech was wordy and my body language was exaggerated. And all this, in class, I have no feeling at all. So, I write down what I want to say, try to hone my language and standardize my spoken English in written language. In this way, in classroom teaching, my language is much cleaner, and the listeners can understand it and feel comfortable. Obviously, I have to re-examine and look at the phenomenon of "all talk and no writing".
The language of the composition should be "concise" on the one hand and "concrete and vivid" on the other. This is also a big problem for our Chinese teachers. Many children don't know how to write concrete and vivid articles. Mr. Wang Dingjun said: The author has reason to add words when writing "words" as "articles". As we said, writing is to express. Sometimes you can express what you want to express (that is, the content) by writing a few more sentences and sentences. When you talk face-to-face, there are gestures, intonation and expressions to help you express yourself and write them down on paper. These are all gone. You have to increase the number of words to make up for the loss. If I tell you "I met Xiao Zhang yesterday", if I stress the word "Xiao Zhang", if I feel surprised and excited when I say this, then write it down "Guess who I met yesterday? I met Xiao Zhang! Can't think of it? " Another hypothesis is that when you face danger, you say "I'm not afraid!" " "But my lips are trembling. If you write it down, you can't just write the words "I'm not afraid", but write it down when your lips are shaking, or: "I said I'm not afraid, but I'm nervous. "
After reading this, I have to admire Mr. Wang's exquisite example. He said this, any student will be happy to accept it, and he knows exactly where to write more words, and how to write them so that people can see him, hear his voice and be there. Reflecting on my own teaching, when facing students, I can only say that my partner's composition is not specific and vivid, but I don't know how to write it. Although there is guidance, I do whatever I want, piecemeal, without systematic theoretical support. So I can't instruct students how to write deeply, and let them know why and where to write. This kind of writing guidance must be a temporary solution, and it is difficult for students to make great progress.
"Three Books on Composition" has greatly inspired my composition teaching, guiding me how to do it next.