Teaching of American Literature with Chinese Characteristics

The questions of “For whom to cultivate students”, “what kind of students to cultivate”, and “how to cultivate students” are interrelated issues to the essence of education, which are worth deep thinking for every educator. The teachers of “American Literature” should carry out the curriculum-based ideological and political education, and deal with properly the relationship between explicit and implicit education. It is essential for the teachers to help students guard against the value infiltration of Western countries, strengthen their establishment of local vision, and build the curriculum system which combines professional knowledge and ability training with value guiding, and help students form correct values from the national, social and individual levels, so as to highlight the socialist education with Chinese characteristics.