美国英语外语教师协会于1997年3月11日至15日在佛罗里达州奥兰多市会议中心举办了第31届英语外语教师国际年会和教学资料展示会。会议的主题是“创造英语外语教学的奇迹”。本次会议是英语外语教学界最重要的年会,来自世界上60多个国家和地区约7 500名英语教师代表参加了会议。会上交流论文2 000余篇。大会展示了各种最新出版的图书、教学资料、视听教材和多种英语计算机辅助教学软件。在会上,具有不同文化、教育和工作背 The American English Language Teachers Association organized the 31st Annual International English Teachers Conference and Teaching Materials Exhibition at the Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from March 11 to March 15, 1997. The theme of the conference is “to create a miracle in English foreign language teaching.” This conference is the most important annual meeting of foreign language teaching and learning. About 7,500 English teachers from over 60 countries and regions attended the conference. At the meeting, more than 2,000 papers were exchanged. The conference displayed a variety of newly published books, teaching materials, audio-visual materials and a variety of English computer-aided instructional software. At the meeting, with a different culture, education and work back