REFLECTION OVER THE“GRADE TWO PHENOMENON”AND CHINESE TEACHING IN JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS

The so-called“grade two phenomenon”in junior middle schools has attracted considerable attention from the educational circle and the whole society.While many educators and educational practitioners attribute this phenomenon to the inner physiological and psychological factors of the students and the extrinsic factors such as school education,the author holds that this phenomenon is as- sociated with school education and subject instruction.This paper discusses how to improve the teaching of the Chinese course to help the students overcome this phenomenon.