本文扼要地回顾了“任务型教学”产生的背景,并阐述了它的主要特征及对外语教学的有益启示。由于“任务型教学”是一种以学习者为中心的教学形式,它将为当前的中职英语听力课程教学改革、学习者的个性化外语学习以及新的教学模式的形成提供新的思路,并在这方面起到积极的引导作用。 This article briefly reviews the background of the “task-based teaching,” and explains its main features and its useful inspiration for foreign language teaching. As “task-based teaching” is a learner-centered form of teaching, it will provide a new model for the current teaching reform of English Listening courses, the development of learners’ personalized foreign language learning, and the formation of new teaching models. Ideas, and play an active guiding role in this regard.