论外语能力的培养

本文在对语言能力、交际能力和外语能力进行界定的基础上着重讨论并分析了目前外语教学界存在的几个误区.文章认为,要培养学生的外语能力,我们在教学中就应该注重语言能力的培养,针对学生的需求组织教学,强调从交际活动中学会交际,注重文化的了解和表达,强调自学能力的培养.

On the Development of Foreign Language Proficiency

The article starts with a brief explanation of the notions of linguistic competence, communicative competence and foreign language proficiency. Then it goes on to clarify some misconceptions about our foreign language education. And finally it proposes that we should pay attention to the development of linguistic competence, organize our teaching according to learners' needs, emphasize the learning of communication through communicative interactions, lay stress on the understanding and expression of cultures and cultivate learners' independent learning capacity if we want to develop our learners' foreign language proficiency.