英国文学课程为英语专业高年级所开设的专业必修课程,旨在提高学生阅读与欣赏文学作品的能力,同时促进学生语言基本功和文化修养。针对现如今一切都在电子化、数字化、网络化的社会环境,如何使学生品味到原汁原味的文学作品,通过阅读原著回归到纯文学的理念,而不是只限于欣赏由名著改编的电影是势在必行的。本文针对这一现象,通过课堂教学的实践和研究,试述阅读经典在文学教学中的作用。 English literature course is a professional compulsory course for senior English majors designed to improve students ’abilities to read and appreciate literary works while promoting students’ language skills and cultural accomplishment. For nowadays everything in the electronic, digital, networked social environment, how to make students taste the original literary works, by reading the original concept of pure literature, rather than just enjoy the film adapted from the famous works is It is imperative. In view of this phenomenon, through the practice and research of classroom teaching, this article tries to explain the role of reading classical literature in teaching of literature.