〔编者按〕教程总是贯彻或体现一定教学方法的。讨论外语课程与评价,实际上评论大多数外语教学方法缺乏科学的评价。本文摘选自《教学方法的隐情》(The Secret Life of Methods)的第三部分。作者从较广的课程编写问题讨论教学方法,批评大多数时兴的教学方法均无适当的评价,或供以评价的论据不够充分。 [Editor’s note] Tutorials always implement or reflect certain teaching methods. Discussion of foreign language courses and evaluation, in fact, commentaries Most foreign language teaching methods lack of scientific evaluation. This article is an excerpt from Part 3 of The Secret Life of Methods. The author discusses teaching methods from a wide range of curriculum compilation issues, criticizes that most fashionable teaching methods are inadequately evaluated or that the arguments for evaluation are inadequate.