摘　要

随着全球经济的发展，英语被视为中国和世界交流的重要媒介之一。当今的形式下，我国急需培养复合型的商务人才。可是，传统的教学方式无法提高学生的实际商务英语应用能力。近几年，人们引进了国外的任务型教学法以帮助解决商务英语教学中存在的问题。任务型教学法是20世纪80年代兴起的一种强调“做中学”的语言教学法。该选题有助于人们更加了解任务型教学法的实际效益。本文主要通过文献研究法，具体介绍了任务型教学法并且从学生和老师的角度分析以及比较两种教学法的差异。以任务型教学法为研究对象，对任务型教学法的不同方面进行阐述，并根据其实际应用的效益为任务型教学法在商务英语教学中的应用提供借鉴。

关键词：商务英语；商务英语教学；任务型教学法；可行性
 
Abstract

With the development of global economy, English is regarded as one of the most important medium for China to communicate with the world. Under the circumstance, complex business talents are badly in need to be cultivated in China. However, the traditional methods can not improve the practical ability of business English. In recent years, the task-based approach was brought in from the foreign countries in order to help solve the current problems in business English teaching. This paper can make people understand the actual benefits of task-based approach well. Through the method of literature research, this paper introduces the task-based approach in detail and analyzes the difference between the two methods from the perspective of student and teacher. This paper focuses on the study of the task-based approach and makes statements according to its different aspects. Through the study of task-based approach and its effectiveness of actual application, it is hoped to improve business English teaching by the feasibility of task-based approach.

Key words: Business English teaching; task-based approach; feasibility

1    Introduction
  As is known to all, the traditional teaching methods have some problems. All these traditional ones are test-oriented and neglect training in students’ communicative competence. Under this circumstance, we should start to search for some effective teaching approach, and task-based approach is just the one that can meet this special need. This paper is mainly about the feasibility and application of task-based approach in business English teaching from different aspects. It is going to explain the feasibility from the aspect of its definition, characteristics, and components and so on. All of these are going to prove the feasibility of task-based approach in business English teaching.