多年来英语精读课堂教学一直存在着教学方法保守，偏重语法分析，忽视篇章理解，忽视交际功能培养等问题，严重阻碍着教学质量的提高和外语人才的培养。素质教育的实施无疑向这种状况提出了挑战。笔者近年来在师专英语专业高年级精读教学实践中不断进行探索与思考，对传统的做法进行了一些初步的改革尝试，并对精读课堂教学的发展提出了自己的见解。 Over the years, English intensive reading teaching has always been a conservative teaching methods, paving the way for grammar analysis, ignoring the text comprehension, neglect of communicative function training and other issues, seriously hampering the improvement of teaching quality and foreign language personnel training. The implementation of quality education undoubtedly posed a challenge to this situation. In recent years, the author constantly explores and ponders over the higher grade intensive reading teaching practice of English majors in teachers colleges, tries some preliminary reform attempts on the traditional methods, and puts forward my own opinions on the development of intensive reading teaching.