在美国,各州和地区都有自己一整套独特的阅读教学计划,语文教师也都按照自己的阅读教学方法,进行着丰富多彩的教学实践。但是,通过认真考察,还是能够看出具有美国特点的阅读教学的一般特征的。本文只就美国中学阅读教学的几项内容略加介绍。一、阅读教学的地位美国的中学非常重视学生阅读能力的培养,在听说读写四项基本训练中,阅读占据着最重要的地位。在美国始于十九世纪六十年代的“写作危机”(Writing Crisis)从一个侧面说明了这一问题。美国的中学阅读教学要占整个语文教学时数的三分之二还要强。二、阅读教学的功能 In the United States, each state and region has its own set of unique reading instructional programs. Chinese teachers also perform a variety of teaching practices in accordance with their reading teaching methods. However, through careful examination, we can still see the general characteristics of reading teaching with American characteristics. This article only gives a brief introduction to several items of American middle school reading teaching. First, the position of reading teaching The American middle school attaches great importance to the cultivation of students’ reading ability. In the four basic trainings of listening, speaking, reading and writing, reading plays an important role. The “Writing Crisis” in the United States in the 1960s illustrates this problem from one side. In the United States, reading instruction in secondary schools accounts for two-thirds of the total number of Chinese language teaching hours. Second, the function of reading teaching