“前沿探索”教学模式是指把最新的科研成果融入外国文学课堂教学,把最新的知识传授给学生,培养学生的创新意识,尽可能突出创新特色的外国文学课堂教学模式。在外国文学课堂教学中恰当引入当代西方前沿理论和文艺美学方法来分析作家作品,树立比较文学教学理念,突出授课内容的开放性和形式的互动性。“前沿探索”教学模式为提高教师的科研能力和学生撰写毕业论文的能力提供一种可能的途径。 “Exploration of the Frontier ” teaching mode refers to the latest scientific research into foreign literature classroom teaching, the latest knowledge to students, cultivate students’ sense of innovation, as far as possible highlighting innovative foreign literature classroom teaching mode. In the foreign literature classroom teaching, it introduces the western front theory and the aesthetics of literature and art aesthetics to analyze the writers’ work, set up the idea of ​​comparative literature teaching, and emphasize the openness and formal interaction of teaching contents. The “cutting-edge exploration” teaching model offers one possible way to improve teachers ’ability to do research and students’ ability to write dissertations.