民族地区开设英语课程是新世纪社会发展的需要,是知识经济时代为了更好的发展与国际发展接轨的必然要求。众所周知,当今国际上,英语已成为世界性的通用语言,学习英语已不仅是与国际发展接轨的需要更是我们学好科学知识的重要工具。而我们国家要想更好的对外开放跟上国际时代潮流,就首先应当使我国公民具备使用外语的基本技能。但是,由于底子薄,师资水平参差不齐,教学设备条件有限,又缺乏较好的英语语言学习环境,特别是教学观念陈旧,教 The opening of English courses in ethnic areas is the need of social development in the new century and an inevitable requirement for better development in line with international development in the era of knowledge economy. As we all know, nowadays, English has become a worldwide common language. Learning English is not only necessary for keeping pace with international development, but also an important tool for us to learn scientific knowledge. In order for our country to be better open to the outside world and keep up with the trend of the international era, we should first of all make our citizens possess the basic skills of using foreign languages. However, due to the weak foundation, the level of teachers is uneven, the teaching facilities are limited, and lack of a good English language learning environment, especially the teaching concept is obsolete.