一威尔金斯(D.A.Wilkins)是功能教学法的主要创始人和代表人物之一。威氏等人曾于七十年代初期应欧洲共同体属下文化合作理事会之聘,设计一种新的外语教程。这种新教程就是后来被称作功能教学法的最早的理论和实践。威氏于1972年在第三次国际应用语言学会议上所作的、题为《语法大纲、情境大纲和意念大纲》的报告,是功能法早期的纲领性文件之一。这份报告提出了功能法的基本主张:以意念(功能)为纲,交际为目的和手段,组织全部外语教学过程。威氏在报告中提出了意念范畴的问题,并对意念范畴进行了分类。他后来发表的《意念大纲》(“Notional Syllabus”,1976,Oxford)被认为是功能法的一部有代表性的权威著作,实际上是这篇报告的全面系统的发挥。 D. Wilkins (D.A.Wilkins) is one of the main founder and representative of functional pedagogy. At the beginning of the seventies, wei et al. Employed a committee of European Communities under the Council for Cultural Co-operation to design a new foreign language course. This new tutorial is the earliest theory and practice that was later called functional pedagogy. The report entitled “Grammar Outline, Syllabus and Syllabus” made by Wilson at the Third International Conference on Applied Linguistics in 1972 is one of the early programmatic documents of the Functional Law. This report proposes the basic idea of ​​the functional law: the concept of (function) as the key link, purpose and means of communication, organize all foreign language teaching process. Wies in the report raised the issue of the concept of categories, and categorized the categories of ideas. His later “Notional Syllabus” (1976, Oxford) was considered as a representative, authoritative book of functional law and was in fact a comprehensive and systematic presentation of this report.