英语角色扮演教学是近几年从边缘化向主流化靠拢的一个外语教学模式。它是对于传统外语教学的改良和提升。英语角色扮演教学有助于教师在教学中找准自己的定位,改变传统教学中以教师为中心而忽视学生主观能动性的情况,达到教学相长,激发学生主观能动性从而发挥角色扮演法的独特效用。 English language role-playing teaching is a foreign language teaching mode that has moved from marginalization to mainstreaming in recent years. It is for the improvement and promotion of traditional foreign language teaching. English role-playing teaching can help teachers identify their own position in teaching and change the traditional teaching to teachers as the center and neglect the students ’subjective initiative to achieve the teaching-based, to stimulate students’ subjective initiative to play the unique role of role-playing law.