外语教学中,阅读和翻译之间的相互关系,含糊不清。迄今为止,无论是文献还是教学实践,都没有为澄清两者之间的界限作出过决定性的贡献。阅读理解,即作为单独的、或在教学中完整的技巧的那种理解性阅读,对于外语教学的方法论和具体教法来说,是一个相当新的领域。它囿于传统偏见而处于危险地向翻译靠拢的境地:如不对其职能充分地作出解释,就极易滑向翻译那边去。一直尚未明确规定这两种技巧的顺序关系,对阅读理解这一专门技巧所起的消极作用极大。外语阅读和母语阅读原则上 In foreign language teaching, the interrelationship between reading and translation is vague. To date, neither literature nor teaching practice has contributed decisively to clarifying the line between the two. Reading comprehension, the kind of comprehension reading as a solitary, or complete, technique in teaching, is a fairly new field for the methodology and pedagogy of foreign language teaching. It is in the midst of a tradition of prejudice and dangerously moving closer to translation: it can easily slip to the translation without a full explanation of its function. The sequence of these two techniques has not yet been clearly defined and has a negative effect on reading comprehension. Foreign language reading and reading in principle