作为国际通用语的英语因其在全球范围内广泛传播而发生了各种地域性的变异,形成了以英式英语与美式英语为主的多个国别变体。英语教学应该以哪一种变体为标准开展?设立一种教学标准英语有无必要?逐渐成为以英语作为外语教学当中亟待解决的问题,本文拟就英语两大主要变体的差异在英语学习与教学当中的影响及其带给英语教学的启示进行探讨。 English as the international lingua franca, because of its widespread worldwide, has undergone a variety of regional variations, forming a number of country variants mainly in British English and American English. Which kind of variation should English English teaching as a standard? Is it necessary to set up a kind of teaching standard English? Gradually become a problem to be solved urgently in English as a foreign language teaching. This article intends to study the differences between the two main variations of English in English learning And the impact of teaching and its enlightenment brought to English teaching.