交际法研究对中国大学英语教材编写的启示

Implications of Chinese College English Teaching Materials Based on Communicative Language Teaching Research

交际法对我国的外语教育和外语教材编写产生了广泛而深远的影响。然而,近年来交际法教学实践却在中国面临发展瓶颈,表现在以交际法为指导的教材与交际法教学实践的矛盾。本文在回顾交际法的语言理论、学习理论和国内外教材编写历程基础上,分析了矛盾产生的原因以及对教材编写工作带来的启示。

Born in the 1960s in Britain, Communicative Language Teaching has become an international teaching method. It has developed fast and exercised great impact on foreign language teaching and textbook compilation since its introduction to China in late 1970s. However, the recent communicative activities of foreign langnage teaching in China meet with obstacles, which are represented by the contradiction between textbooks for communicative purpose and the practice communicative language teaching. This paper aims at looking back on the language theory and learning theory of coinmunicative language teaching and the history of textbook compilation at home and abroad, with the purpose of analyzing the reasons and proposing corresponding suggestions.