培养外语交际能力是外语教学的最终目的。国外关于“交际能力”的理论并不完全适合我国的外语教学。笔者对“交际能力”的概念产生、发展进行了分析 ,提出了适合我国外语教学的交际能力概念 Developing foreign language communication skills is the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching. Foreign theory of “communicative competence” is not entirely suitable for our foreign language teaching. The author analyzes the emergence and development of the concept of “communicative competence” and puts forward the concept of communicative competence that suits our foreign language teaching