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一九八五年秋天,中国国家教育部颁布了新的高等学校英语教学大纲。这个文件中一个非常有意义的意见表明,中国的英语专家们终于认识到中国传统的外语教学方法存在的问题。文件说:过去,英语教师们只注重语言知识的传授,而忽略了交际能力的培养。学生操练了许多句型,而他们对语言的理解只停留在句子的水平上……大纲继续说:教师应极大重视交际水平的操练,发展学生的交际能力。这种提法,要求或劝告,不管你怎么理解,带有一种指令性的口气。可以毫不夸张地说,这对中国来说是相当急进的。它提出这样一个观点,即交际能力不仅仅表现在能运用
In the autumn of 1985, the Ministry of Education of China promulgated a new syllabus for higher education in English. A very significant opinion in this document shows that Chinese English experts have finally realized the problems with the traditional Chinese teaching methods. The documents said: In the past, English teachers only focused on the teaching of language knowledge, while ignoring the cultivation of communicative competence. Students practice a lot of sentence patterns, and their understanding of language only stays at the sentence level ... Outline continues: teachers should attach great importance to the practice of communication skills, develop students’ communicative competence. This formulation, demand or advice, no matter how you understand it, carries a commanding tone. It is no exaggeration to say that this is quite radical for China. It puts forward the view that communicative competence is not only manifested in its ability to be used