英语教学随着时代的发展与变革产生了多种教学方法。这些方法固然各自有其可取之处,但无疑交际教学法更适应国家间交流日益密切的需求,更有利于提高学生的英语交际能力,所以受到越来越多外语教师的青睐。本文以简述英语教学法的几个发展阶段为出发点,重点阐述交际教学法的由来与特点,再结合交际法在教学实践中的具体实施,对交际法在大学英语教学中的积极作用提出肯定。 English teaching has produced many kinds of teaching methods with the development and change of the times. Although these methods have their own merits, but undoubtedly the communicative teaching method is more adapted to the increasingly close exchange of national needs, but also help to improve students’ English communication skills, so more and more foreign language teachers of all ages. Based on the brief introduction of several stages of development of English pedagogy, this article focuses on the origin and characteristics of communicative pedagogy, combined with the concrete implementation of communicative approach in teaching practice, this paper affirms the positive role of communicative approach in college English teaching .