上世纪80年代起,由于交际教学法的盛行,我国英语教学逐渐忽视了背诵及模仿的传统教学手段。近年来,模因论的研究不断受到人们的关注,学者们开始从模因的角度对我国的传统外语教学手段进行新的思考。本文试图从模因论的视角,重新审视传统注重背诵和模仿的英语教学手段在现代的英语教学中的重要地位。 Since the 1980s, due to the prevalence of communicative teaching method, English teaching in our country gradually neglected the traditional teaching methods of reciting and imitating. In recent years, the research on memetics continues to receive the attention of people, and scholars begin to think about the traditional methods of foreign language teaching from the perspective of memetics. This article attempts to reexamine the important position of the traditional English teaching method which emphasizes recitation and imitation in modern English teaching from the perspective of memetics.