社会剧变、世界政治多元化和经济全球化给美国带来了前所未有的挑战,对其外语教师教育也产生了重要影响。20世纪50年代以来,美国政府相继出台一系列相关教育政策,外语教师培养标准不断发展和完善,教师培养模式经历了重大转型,外语教师教育呈现出了新的特点。 Social changes, world political pluralism and economic globalization have brought unprecedented challenges to the United States and have also had an important impact on their foreign language teacher education. Since the 1950s, the U.S. government has successively promulgated a series of related education policies. The training standards for foreign language teachers have been continuously developed and improved. The teacher training mode has undergone a major transformation. Foreign language teacher education has shown new characteristics.