阅读教学理论是当代外语教学中最有影响的理论。它实际上已涉及到外语教学的各个层面并在一定程度上左右着外语教学的整体框架和模式。因此这一理论的发展已引起外语教学界的普遍重视。本文拟就其主要的发展作一综述以引他山之石深拓汉语社区外语教学的研讨。 Reading teaching theory is the most influential theory in contemporary foreign language teaching. It actually involves all aspects of foreign language teaching and to a certain extent, the overall framework and mode of foreign language teaching. Therefore, the development of this theory has aroused the widespread attention of foreign language teaching. This article intends to give a general overview of its main development in order to guide the exploration of foreign language teaching in the Chinese community of Stone Mountain.