Production-oriented Approach in College English Teaching

Chinese professor WEN Qiufang puts forward a theoretical system of production-oriented approach, which focuses on the big problem of "separation of learning and using" in English learning by Chinese college students, emphasizes the role of production in language learning and introduces the idea of integrating input and output in language teaching. This paper reviews the theoretical system, which consists of teaching principles, teaching hypotheses and teacher-mediated teaching process, compares it with task-based language teaching, applies it to college English teaching, and points out difficulties in the implementation of this production-oriented approach.