对外语教学的研究无疑是提高学生运用外语能力的有效方法.然而,我们基本上较为注重教学法的研究,而忽视了语言本身在外语教学中对学生学习和掌握所产生的影响.本文对此进行了探讨,提出了外语教学的两个方面——教学特性,包括教学方式;语言特性,包括外语在教学中所起的作用.其中教学特性决定了对所学语言的理解和掌握,语言特性决定了对所学语言的运用和交际能力的体现,两者在外语教学中都具有同样的实际价值. The study of foreign language teaching is undoubtedly an effective way to improve students’ abilities to use foreign languages.However, we basically pay more attention to the research of pedagogy and neglect the influence of language itself on the learning and mastery of students in foreign language teaching.In this paper, Discussed the two aspects of foreign language teaching - teaching characteristics, including teaching methods; language characteristics, including the role of foreign language in teaching which teaching characteristics determine the understanding and mastery of language learning, language features Decided to use the language and communicative competence, both in foreign language teaching have the same practical value.