The Stylistics Perspective On Literary Text Teaching Of College English Intensive Reading

The college English intensive reading course focuses on the promotion of reading comprehension with its emphasis on consolidating language foundation. Meanwhile, it attempts to help students to apply their language knowledge to practice, such as listening, speaking, writing, and translating. It also tries to deepen appreciation of foreign cultures. The predominant approach in current college English intensive course is the traditional teaching method which is a"bottom-up"teaching pattern with the thread of word-sentence-paragraph-text. It focuses on the drill of grammar structures, words and phrases, neglecting the language production and the exploitation of the beauty of language in texts. The teacher plays a dominant role in class, and the students hardly have opportunities to take part in the language practice and develop their communicative language competence. Consequently, it hinders the development of language competence and dampens their interest in English learning.In the light of this situation, the author of this thesis has made a fresh attempt to construct a new teaching method of college English intensive course based on literary stylistics. In this method, the students, after a full understanding of the language points of a given text, are required to explore the thematic and aesthetic value hidden in the language with the help of their global understanding of the text and their background knowledge. This method attempts to teach students to apply stylistic analysis discourse during text reading. Stylistic analysis can be undertaken on different levels, such as phonological level, graphological level, lexical level, syntactical level, rhetorical level, and text structural level. It places emphasis on the linguistic features loaded with stylistic significance and aesthetic value with the aim of investigation the author's pragmatic and communicative effect by examining the fore-grounded linguistic features. Utilizing activities such as paraphrasing, translating and discussing, the method attempts to create a student-centered classroom environment which emphasizes language output in the hope that learners'interest and motivation can be promoted.The conclusion drawn from the research is that compared with the traditional method, the new approach based on literary stylistics is more effective in promotion students' language proficiency and interest in English. However, the application of literary stylistic analysis to college English intensive course should be an exploratory and gradual process during which teachers'expertise, students'language proficiency and the nature of textbooks should be taken into serious consideration. Meanwhile, the merits of the traditional teaching method are not to be neglected.