新世纪大学英语教师面临的挑战与对策

The challenges college English teachers are faced with and the countermeasures thereof

本文着重分析了入世后我国大学英语教师面临的各种挑战及应采取的对策。这些问题主要包括：1．社会经济的发展对大学生的英语水平提出了更高的要求，但目前大学英语教学的状况不容乐观；2．大学英语教师的素质，尤其是科研能力、知识结构和英语技能与现实需求仍有较大差距。最后，作者针对上述问题的解决提出了自己的看法。

This paper focuses on the challenges that college English teachers face after China's entry into WTO and the countermeasures to take. These challenges include; 1. social and economic development has been demanding more on college students' English proficiency, while the current college English teaching is still far from being satisfactory; 2. the qualities of college English teachers, especially their research ability, knowledge composition and English level cannot meet the current requirements. The author then puts forward his own suggestions on solving these problems.