Study On The Book Of Standards For Foreign Language Learning In The 21st Century

America always has a deep influence on foreign language teaching all over the world and now it's one of the counties having a large-scale reform on foreign language teaching. The reform in 1996, no matter from the size to the effort is the biggest one and it must have a profound influence on American education. As a programmatic document for the reform, the role of Standards for Foreign Language Learning:Preparing for the 21st Century must be very important; we can learn something from it.Our country also has a long history of foreign language teaching; it can be traced back to Qing dynasty. Today though we have a high rate of foreign language learning, we still meet some problems, such as inefficiency, only a few kinds of foreign languages are being taught. Now, in China we are facing foreign language curriculum reform too, analyzing American curriculum reform can enrich our vision and give us some hints during our reform.This paper can be divided into four parts. First, the historical development of the foreign language curriculum in the U. S. is described. Second it emphatically pointed out the 5C standards and from the point of science made an analysis. Then it introduced the development of the reform and made a simple analysis on the factors affected on it. At last, the present situation of our foreign language teaching is described and showed the significance of studying American foreign language standards.This paper tried to find some ways for our foreign language curriculum reform from the book:Standards for Foreign Language Learning:Preparing for the 21st Century.