在英语书刊上,我们随时都可以看到有关英语教学的“首字母缩略词”.它们出现于不同时期,反映了我们时代英语教学的发展情况. ELT——English Language Teaching英语教学始于40年代初期,英国Peter Strevens把它称为“早期的TEFL”. (T)EFL——(The Teaching of)English as a Foreign Language作为外语的英语教学)40年代中期开始使用,和“作为本国语”或“作为第二语言”的英语教学相对. In English books and periodicals, we can see the “acronyms” of English teaching at any time, which appear in different periods and reflect the development of English teaching in our times ELT - English Language Teaching English teaching begins at 40 In the early 1950’s, Peter Strevens in the UK referred to it as “an early TEFL.” EFL - (The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language English as a foreign language) began to be used in the mid-1940s, and “as a native language” Or “as a second language” in English teaching.