京师同文馆的外语教学独具特色:重视翻译实践,翻译不仅是课堂教学的中心,而且通过学生参与译书及总理衙门的传译工作使外语教学由课内延伸至课外,从而使这一以翻译为特色的外语教学成为一个不间断的连贯的过程。这一教学模式,培养出一批为国家服务的人才,在近代中国的政治、外交、教育等领域产生了一定的影响,推进了中国现代化进程,具有启发和借鉴价值。 The foreign language teaching of the Capital Tongwen Hall is unique in that it emphasizes the practice of translation. Translation is not only the center of classroom teaching, but also extends the foreign language teaching from the classroom to the extra-curricular through students’ participation in the translation and the translation work of the Premier Yamen, As the characteristics of foreign language teaching has become an uninterrupted and coherent process. This model of teaching and cultivating a group of talents who serve the country have exerted a certain influence in such fields as politics, diplomacy and education in modern China, promoted the process of China’s modernization, and provided inspiration and reference value.