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.

English teacher should place great emphasis on the rhetoric teaching to improve students′ ability of appreciating literature.

In order to meet the requirements of the teaching syllabus, rhetoric teaching in universities should breakthrough the "figure-of-speech-centerted Theory" and the limitation of sentence analysis, and let the students shake offthe old rhetoric concept, and improve their communication competence through varied teaching methods.

Two great schools in Western educational philosophy,one school represented by Plato with cognitive-logos value education and the other represented by Isocrates with rhetoric education have been separated,which brought about many problems,especially exerting many negative effects on education in China since the contemporary times.