Abstract:

The issues this paper focuses on are: (1) Treating applied linguistics as an academic discipline in its own right by setting up more centres in higher-education institutions, making more scientific decisions, and popularizing the discipline; (2) Reconsidering language policy and planning in terms of globalization and language teaching; (3) Emphasizing on the cognitive basis of language teaching; (4) Focusing on the process of foreign language teaching in terms of ultimate attainment, language input, language transfer and fossilization; (5) Rethinking foreign language teaching in the light of the relationship between form and meaning, teaching of grammar, and formulaic language.