引言视听说教学是外语教学中的主干课程。随着科学技术的不断发展,语言教学设备的日益更新,人类社会进入了以形象符号传播信息的时代。在课堂上,学生被强制性地要求去“读”形象符号,尽管他们只不过有一点视觉经验,并不具有视觉能力,也就是说没有“读”形象符号的技能。没有文字运用能力的人,是不会看书,写文章的,同样地,没有视觉文化知识的人,自然难以理解形象符号表达的信息。在今天这个充满形象信息的社会环 Introduction Audio-visual teaching is the main course in foreign language teaching. With the continuous development of science and technology, the language teaching equipment has been updated day by day, and human society has entered an era of disseminating information with image symbols. In the classroom, students are forced to “read” the image symbols, although they have only a little visual experience and do not have the visual ability, that is, there is no skill of “reading” the image symbol. People who do not have the ability to use words can not read books and write essays. Likewise, those who do not have visual and cultural knowledge naturally find it hard to understand the messages expressed by the image symbols. In today’s social circle full of image information