(一) 外语教学是一门可怜的学科。说它可怜,并不是说没有人愿意学习外语,也不是说没有人愿意教外语,更不是说外语教学一无成就。事实上,这些都不是问题。说它可怜,是因为外语教学与研究虽然已有好几百年的历史,但发展到今天,它仍然是一门只有实践,没有完整,独立的理论可以支撑的学科。与传 (A) foreign language teaching is a poor discipline. To say it poor is not to say that no one is willing to learn a foreign language, nor does it mean that no one is willing to teach a foreign language, not to say that there is no achievement in teaching foreign languages. In fact, these are not problems. To say that it is pitiful is that although foreign language teaching and research have existed for hundreds of years, today it is still a subject which can only be supported by practice, no complete and independent theory. And pass