受过中等甚至高等教育，学过英语而不能使用英语的中、青年人数以亿计，他们如果就此放弃，过去所花费的时间和精力就太可惜了，但他们已难于离岗从事学习，业余学习就显得十分重要一现在成人学习外语十分踊跃，怎样依据成人特点让学员学好英语，广大外语教师非常关注、本期编 They have hundreds of millions of middle-aged and young people who have learned medium and even higher education but can not use English. If they give up on this, the time and energy they spent in the past would be unfortunate. However, they have had difficulty in leaving their posts for study and amateur study It is very important one now adults are very active in learning foreign languages, how to make students learn English according to adult characteristics, the majority of foreign language teachers are very concerned about this issue