College-English Poetry Teaching with the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics

Abstract

College-English poetry teaching is one of the important parts of English teaching in Chinese colleges from which Chinese students benefit in language learning, different cultural knowledge, the ability of cross-culture communication as well as their aesthetical consciousness. The theory of reception aesthetics focuses on the role of readers during the process of reading and its main notions like the horizon of expectations, gaps and blanks and aesthetic distance play a vital theoretical role in the innovation of college-English poetry teaching in college class. The application of the theory in poetry teaching alters the traditional role of teacher, student and textbook in class. It also improves Chinese college students’ English learning and enhances the quality of English poetry teaching in china’s college classes.