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我国历史上曾经就大学英语教学定位爆发了四次较大的争论,争论的核心是定位在打语言基础的通用英语上还是在为专业学习的专门用途英语上。大学英语教学定位关系到满足个人外语能力需求还是国家外语能力需求。如是后者,大学外语教育就应该培养大学生能够用英语直接从事自己的专业学习和研究,以便在自己的学科领域内具有较强的国际交流能力和竞争力。但多年来,大学英语教育在不同程度上忽视了国家外语能力的要求,既没有提出学习英语的使用目标,也未提出培养学生这种用英语学习专业的语言要求。为了提高大学英语教学效率,满足国家外语能力的需要,大学英语应该有新的教学定位和语言要求。
In history, there have been four major debates over the orientation of college English teaching. The core of the controversy is whether it is aimed at general English at the basis of language or specialized English at professional level. The orientation of college English teaching is related to the need of meeting individual foreign language ability or national foreign language ability. In the latter case, university foreign language education should train college students to engage in their own professional study and research directly in English in order to have strong ability of international communication and competitiveness in their own subject areas. However, for many years, college English education has neglected to a certain degree the requirements of the foreign language ability of the country. It neither proposed the use target of learning English nor proposed the language requirement of training students who use English to study majors. In order to improve the efficiency of college English teaching and meet the needs of foreign language ability, college English should have new teaching orientation and language requirements.