阅读历来被看作是语言教学中最重要的组成部分 ,提高学生的阅读理解能力一直是外语教学的主要目标。为了提高英语专业高年级学生的阅读理解能力 ,阅读课中采用语篇教学法是很有必要的。实行现代阅读理论指导下的语篇教学法 ,可以培养和提高学生的分析、推理能力 ,能帮助学生更全面、更深刻地理解文章内容 ,有效地提高阅读理解能力 Reading has always been seen as the most important part of language teaching, improving students’ reading comprehension has been the main goal of foreign language teaching. In order to improve the reading comprehension ability of senior English majors, it is necessary to adopt discourse teaching method in reading class. Practicing the discourse teaching method under the guidance of modern reading theory can cultivate and improve students’ ability of analysis and reasoning, help students to understand the content of the article more comprehensively and deeply, and improve their reading comprehension effectively