It is necessary to give prominence to the discourse teaching in the English classes.

In order to cultivate students’ appreciative ability of the English language, this paper focuses its attention on three aspects, they are: discourse teaching, rhetoric teaching and culture teaching.

This paper discusses the theoretical grounds for,the advantage for,and the use of discourse teaching pattern.

Talking about the teaching on language points and discourse in English teaching;

This paper attempts to illustrate the feasibility and necessity of discourse approach in college English teaching by means of holistic principles, psychology, schematic theory and cognitive theory so as to construct an instructional approach which is student oriented under the guidance of schematic theory and cognitive theory.

Enlightenment of change of TEM 4 cloze test on text teaching;

Based on the principle of procedures of text comprehension and the theory of text teaching,this paper discusses how to improve students ability of text comprehension and the ability of culture appreciation in "Advanced English" teaching.

In the teaching of College English reading,it is significant for teachers to apply text teaching to cultivate students ability in reading comprehension and comprehensive language use.