文学课在外语教学中究竟置于何位,说法和做法历来不一。过去我们曾经走过“文学道路”,忽视了技巧技能的培养。现在重视了语言交际功能的训练,还要不要文学课、如何上好文学课,看法并不一致。笔者以为文学是一种特殊的社会现象,它所创造的某些文学形象对社会的反作用有时是人们意想不到的。英国小说家柯南·道尔在一八八七年塑造的福尔摩斯的形象不仅深深刻印 Literary class in foreign language teaching exactly what place, the views and practices have always been different. In the past we have gone through “literary path” and neglected the cultivation of skills. Now pay attention to the training of language communication function, but also not literature class, how to do a good literature class, the views are not the same. I think literature is a special kind of social phenomenon, and some of the literary images it creates are sometimes unimaginable to the society. Holmes’s image, shaped by Conan Doyle in 1887, is not only deeply engraved