“九一一”恐怖袭击之后,美国高校外语教育面临培养目标短视、课程体系离散、师资权力结构失衡、合格教师缺乏、教师培养模式存在缺陷等一系列危机。在美国现代语言协会的领导下,美国大学外语专业确立了“跨文化跨语言能力”专业培养目标,开始设计新的课程体系,重塑外语院系,构建合格、合作的师资队伍,探索更加合理的外语人才培养模式。 After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the foreign language education in American universities is facing a series of crises such as short-sighted training, discrete curriculum system, imbalance of teachers’ power structure, lack of qualified teachers and defects in teacher training mode. Under the leadership of the American Association for the Modernization of Languages, the major of foreign languages ​​in American universities has set the goal of professional training in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic competence, starting to devise a new curriculum system, reshaping foreign language departments and colleges and establishing qualified and cooperative faculty members. More reasonable foreign language personnel training mode.