随着社会需要的变化以及语言学、心理学、社会学等相邻学科的发展，外语教学法流派迭出，名目繁多。应用语言学界通常将它们归结为三种：语法翻译法、听说法和交际法。各流派之间的争论对我国的外语教学实践及理论研究产生了巨大影响和强烈冲击，一度使人感到眼花缭乱，无所适 With the changes of social needs and the development of the adjacent disciplines such as linguistics, psychology and sociology, the foreign language pedagogy has a great variety of genres. Applied linguistics usually boils down to three categories: grammar translation, listening and speaking, and communication. The controversies among schools have had a huge impact on the practice of foreign language teaching and theoretical research in our country.