本文集中讨论关于我国外语教学的若干问题,包括:1)把应用语言学作为一门学科来对待;2)从全球化和语言教学的角度重新考虑我国的语言计划;3)重视语言教学的认知基础,了解学习者学习语言的心理过程;4)从最终目标、语言输入、语言转移和石化的角度来多了解外语教学的过程;5)反思一些外语教学的基本问题,如形式和语言的联系,语法教学和词块教学。

The issues this paper focuses on are: (1) Treating applied linguistics as an academic discipline in its own right by setting up more centres in higher-education institutions, making more scientific decisions, and popularizing the discipline; (2) Reconsidering language policy and planning in terms of globalization and language teaching; (3) Emphasizing on the cognitive basis of language teaching; (4) Focusing on the process of foreign language teaching in terms of ultimate attainment, language input, language transfer and fossilization; (5) Rethinking foreign language teaching in the light of the relationship between form and meaning, teaching of grammar, and formulaic language.