信息时代的外语教学——理论创新、科技进步与外语教学改革

Foreign Language Teaching in the Information Age

因特网的滥觞、发展和普及昭示着信息化时代的到来.信息时代呼唤外语教学的变革.回顾历史,理论创新和科技进步始终是外语教学改革肇始、深化和发展的福音.本文简要追述外语教学的发展史,力图追踪理论创新和科技进步对外语教学发展的促进,着重探讨因特网将要引发的新一轮外语教学的改革,并就信息时代的外语教学的改革思路、方法和前景提出一点看法.

The rapid spreading of the internet signifies the arrival of the information age which calls for the further reform of foreign language teaching (FLT). In recollection, theoretical innovation and technological progress have always been a blessing for the initiation, deepening and development of the reform of FLT. This paper discusses, from a historical point of view, the role theoretical innovation and technological progress have played in the promotion of FLT with a focus on the net-induced FLT reform and thereby raises the writers' tentative views on the issue.