新世纪以来,美国外语教学与时俱进,顺应国内外政治、经济和文化发展的需要,在外语教育的方针政策、人才培养的计划目标、师资队伍建设等方面都有新的调整、革新和发展。这启发我们要对其体制化全球化的外语政策、国家战略高度的人才培养目标、全面系统严格的师资培养方案、灵活多样注重能力的教学方式、定位于实用主义的教学法研究等予以借鉴,以期对我国外语教学起到改革和促进作用。 Since the beginning of the new century, the foreign language teaching in the United States has kept pace with the times and is in conformity with the needs of political, economic and cultural development both at home and abroad. It has made new adjustments, innovations and reforms in the guidelines and policies of foreign language education, the planned objectives of personnel training and the construction of teaching staff development of. This enlightens us to draw lessons from its foreign policy of institutionalized globalization, the goal of talent cultivation at the national strategic level, the comprehensive and systematic training programs for teachers, the flexible and diversified teaching methods that focus on ability, and the pragmatic pedagogy research. With a view to our country’s foreign language teaching play a role in reform and promotion.