《修辞学习》编辑部目前开展的关于修辞教学的讨论,有助于修辞教学的提高,也有助于高校整个“现代汉语”课程的建设。从目前的情况看,修辞教学与整个“现代汉语”的教学一样,虽不能说已陷入困境,但如果不积极改革,前途是不容乐观的。本文就高校修辞教学的改革谈些粗浅看法,以求指正。目前修辞的教学体系一般以陈望道先生的《修辞学发凡》的消极修辞和积极修辞为基础,作适当增删而形成的。应该说陈先生的《发凡》为确立修辞学的研究对象,总结修辞规律作出了不可磨灭的贡献。但由于时代的发展,研究的深入,修辞中有些领域(如语体、新辞格等)的研究已有了新的发展,这就需要重新加以整理;在教学中,由于有的同志对修辞的片面理解,使学生产生学修辞用处不大的感觉,这也需要对原有的体系重新加以研究。修辞教学中存在的一个问题是界限不清,即修 The discussion on rhetoric teaching currently carried out by editorial department of Rhetoric helps to improve the teaching of rhetoric and also contributes to the construction of the entire “Modern Chinese” course in colleges and universities. Judging from the current situation, rhetorical teaching, like the teaching of “Modern Chinese”, can not be said to have been in a difficult situation. However, the future can not be optimistic unless it is actively pursued. This article talks about the reform of rhetoric teaching in colleges and universities in order to correct it. The current teaching system of rhetoric is generally formed on the basis of the negative rhetoric and positive rhetoric of Mr. Chen Wangdao’s “rhetoric” and is appropriately added and deleted. It should be said that Mr. Chen’s “Fa Fan” made an indelible contribution to the establishment of rhetorical research objects and to the conclusion of rhetorical laws. However, due to the development of the times and the deepening of research, the research on some fields of rhetoric (such as style, new figures of speech, etc.) has made new development, which needs to be reorganized. In the teaching, because of the rhetoric of some comrades One-sided understanding, so that students produce rhetorical useless feeling, which also need to re-examine the original system. One of the problems in rhetoric teaching is the unclear boundary, that is, cultivation