A Review of the Literature on Micro-Writing Teaching

Micro-writing is one of the most common writing styles in social life. Its short length has been loved by many writers since ancient times. Especially after the widespread use of new media, micro-writing has become a normalized and most down-to-earth writing style with obvious communicative characteristics. In the field of Chinese education, as early as the beginning of the national unified college entrance examination, there were “small essays” with micro-writing attributes, but they were repeatedly discontinued. Until the micro-writing questions of the Beijing College Entrance Examination came out in 2014, the attention to micro-writing in the field of Chinese education has been rising. Therefore, this paper takes micro-writing as the research object and attempts to explore the essence of micro-writing. This review focuses on tracing the source of the concept of micro-writing teaching and analyzing the genes in the blood of micro-writing teaching. Then, combined with the background and theoretical basis of micro-writing teaching at home and abroad, the functionality of micro-writing teaching is analyzed. Finally, through the investigation and reflection on the current situation of micro-writing teaching in Chinese, based on the latest views on Chinese core literacy, several practical paths of micro-writing teaching are selected for reflection, laying a foundation for Chinese teachers to better use micro-writing teaching.