Being a compulsory and essential course for the Chinese majors in the normal college,
foreign literature occupies an important
place in the specialized curriculum.Nevertheless,
foreign literature used to face a number of problems. There existed the contradiction between too many contents to teach and hardly enough class hours to finish them; Quite a few teachers followed the traditional teaching method of "cramming", overlooked the students' important role in acquiring knowledge and failed to train the students' practical ability of reading, watching,speaking and writing. Besides, their test methods remained outdated and simplistic. Today, when painstaking efforts are being given to promote overall quality of the students and train their creativeness and practicability, apparently the traditional mode of teaching foreign literature can't meet the needs of the situation and has a lot to be reformed.Therefore, while conducting the provincial educational reform project The Mode of Reforming and Researching Foreign Literature Teaching through Comprehensive Methods , we not only try to optimize teaching contents and improve teaching quality, but also strive to reform teaching methods and upgrade the students' overall quality. Meanwhile, we have the exam methods accordingly reformed and adjusted. Through three years' reform and practice, we have set up an open and all round
teaching mode with the organic combination of teachers' lecturing with the students' reading, watching, speaking and writing.We have spread and applied the mode to a couple of courses opened in the Chinese department and have achieved satisfactory result