独立学院英语专业学生具有非常强烈的增加课外真实材料的需求。将真实材料应用于英语阅读教学,可以激发学生的兴趣,增加其语言输入,助其了解英语国家社会文化的真实情况。将真实材料应用于独立学院外语教学的实验表明,真实材料有助于扩大学生的英语词汇量,提高学生的阅读理解能力,培养学生的自主学习能力。 Independent college English majors have a very strong need to increase extracurricular real materials. The application of real materials to English reading teaching can stimulate students’ interest and increase their language input so as to help them understand the real situation of social culture in English-speaking countries. The experiment of using real materials in independent college foreign language teaching shows that the real materials help to expand students’ English vocabulary, improve students’ reading comprehension, and develop students’ autonomous learning ability.