本文从功能语言学的角度重新审视了英语口语的特点:口语的自发性和无意识性、语境依赖性、语法复杂性、动态性、隐喻性和首要性,从而是使我们重新认识了口语的特点,改变了以前口语在语言研究中处于从属地位的认识,加深了对语言本质的认识,为从传统的以阅读为中心的教学向以口语为重心的教学的转变提供了理论基础。 This essay reexamined the characteristics of spoken English from the perspective of functional linguistics: the spontaneous and unconsciousness of spoken language, contextual dependence, grammatical complexity, dynamics, metaphoricalness and primacy, thus enabling us to re-understand the spoken language It has changed the cognition of subordinate position of spoken language in linguistic research and deepened the understanding of linguistic essence, which provided the theoretical basis for the transformation from the traditional reading-centered teaching to the oral-centered teaching.