近来,《英语自学》编辑部接到不少读者来信。诉说在自学本科课程、尤其是“英美文学选读”时所遇到的种种困难。大家反映,虽然有一本全国通用的教材,但由于教材用英文编写,在理解和运用时自学考生感到非常棘手,因此迫切希望《英语自学》能对教材作一些配套辅助说明。编辑部特约请我刊编委、上海外国语大学英语学院薛浩博士撰写系列辅导文章。但愿能对读者自学教材有所帮助。同时欢迎大家来信或电子邮件与作者进行交流。我们将选择有代表性的问题在《英语自学》上进行答复。 Recently, the editorial department of “English Self-Study” received a lot of letters from readers. The difficulties encountered in self-study of undergraduate courses, especially “British and American literature reading”. Everyone has reported that although there is a nationally-available teaching material, because the teaching materials are written in English, self-taught examiners are very troublesome in understanding and using them. Therefore, it is eager to have some supplementary explanations for the teaching materials. The editorial department specially invited Dr. Xue Hao of the editorial board of the Journal of Shanghai University of Foreign Studies to write a series of tutorial articles. I hope to help readers learn self-study materials. At the same time welcome everyone to write or e-mail to communicate with the author. We will choose to answer representative questions in the “English self-learning”.