接受美学对大学英语阅读教学改革的几点启示

Inspirations from Reception Aesthetics on Reform in Teaching English Reading in Colleges

接受美学揭示了新的作品和读者的关系,确立了读者的阅读主体地位,提出了作品在未经阅读前,存在许多"空白"或"未定点",并发现了读者的"期待视野"和作品之间具有一定的审美距离。这些理论对大学英语阅读教学的改革有着重要的启示:教学中应以学生为中心;要注重学生认知能力、想象力、创造力的培养;要在教学内容的宽度深度和教学形式方法的多样性上改革。

Reception aesthetics has revealed the new relations between the works and the readers and established the readers＇ subject position of reading. It proposes that many “gaps” or“uncertain meanings” are existing in the works before being read, and finds there were certain aesthetic distances between the readers’ “expectation” and the works. There are important inspirations on the reform of the teaching English reading in college： be the student-centered in teaching; give prominence to the cultivation of cognitive ability, imagination and creativity and make reforms in variety of the teaching contents and methods.