Ⅰ、背景介绍自本世纪六十年代末,英国传统语言教学法经历了一场变革,交际语言教学法就是在这场变革中出现的。在此以前,在英国,英语作为外语教学的主要方法是情景教学法。在情景语言教学中,语言教学是在以情景为基础的有意义的语言活动中,通过练习基本句子结构来进行的。但是,正如听说法的语言理论到了六十年代中期在美国受到抵制一样,在英国语言学家们也开始对情景语言教学法的理论提出异议: “很明显,到六十年代末时,情景法已失去了发展势头;继续沿着以情景事件来设 I. Background Since the late sixties of last century, the traditional English language teaching in England has undergone a revolution. The communicative language teaching method is emerging in this revolution. Prior to this, in the United Kingdom, English as the main method of foreign language teaching is the situation teaching method. In situational language teaching, language teaching is carried out by practicing the basic sentence structure in contextual and meaningful language activities. But, just as the language theory of hear-and-talk was boycotted in the United States in the mid-1960s, British linguists also began to challenge the theory of situational pedagogy: "It is clear that by the end of the 1960s scenario methods Has lost its momentum of development; it continues to follow scenarios of events