(一)社会需要是外语教育的出发点外语是国际交往的桥梁。学不学外语,学哪些外语,学到什么程度,都取决于国际交往的需要。近百年我国学习外语的历史可以说明这个问题。鸦片战争以前,清朝统治者奉行闭关自守的政策,不存在对外语的需求,因此也就没有什么外语教育。鸦片战争以后,帝国主义列强相继打进了中国,从此,中国一步一步地沦为半封建半殖民地的社会。这从反面 (A) social needs is the starting point of foreign language education Foreign language is a bridge of international exchanges. Learn not to learn foreign languages, learn what foreign languages, to what extent, depends on the needs of international exchanges. In the past century, the history of learning foreign languages ​​in our country can illustrate this issue. Before the Opium War, the Qing rulers pursued a policy of self-retrenchment and there was no demand for foreign languages, so there was no foreign language education. Since the Opium War, the imperialist powers have successively entered China. From then on, China has gradually become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. This is the opposite