摘  要

本文以国内外著名教育家和语言学家的理论和研究为基础，是关于交际法与任务法的比较研究，包括二者的特征、优点、缺点、教学原则、步骤和实施策略，而且还提到在课堂实施中所需注意的问题。21世纪需要的是走向世界的外向型人才。当务之急是提高学生的综合语言应用能力和找到语言教学的恰当方法。交际法和任务法适合时代发展的要求。为了培养更多能够有效交流的人才，许多教育家和政府将国家的教育方针和大纲逐渐集中在交际法和任务法的不同版本上。为了研究交际法和任务法以及二者的实施背景，采取了许多不同的方法如比较研究法、描述性研究法、文献研究法、调查法等。这二种方法存在异同，如何处理其关系是需要解决的主要问题。如何正确理解和掌握这二种教学法对激发学生兴趣和培养语言能力很重要。

关键词：交际法；任务法；方法；关系

Abstract

This article mainly talks about the comparative study of communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). It mainly includes features, advantages, disadvantages, principles, procedures and strategies of CLT and TBLT. What's more, it contains about the problems we should pay attention to when implementing of CLT and TBLT in the classroom. It is based on various theories and researches of famous educators and linguists at home and abroad. What the twenty-first century needs is giving the extraverted talents to the world. Communicative language teaching and task-based language teaching meet the requirements of the times. It's an urgent task to improve the learners' comprehensive ability of using language and find appropriate methods of language teaching. In order to cultivate more talents who can communicate effectively, many educators and governments gradually focus on various versions of CLT and TBLT. In order to research the topic about CLT and TBLT and the background of implementation of CLT and TBLT, many different methodologies are taken to carry out the comparative study of CLT and TBLT, such as the comparative research, the descriptive research, the literature research, the survey research and so on. There are some similarities and differences between CLT and TBLT. What the relationship between each other is, how to correctly treat the relationship between each other are the major issues to be solved. How to correctly understand and grasp CLT and TBLT is very important to stimulate learners' interest in learning language and cultivate their language abilities.

Key words: communicative language teaching; task-based language teaching; methodology; relationship

1 Introduction
1.1 Background knowledge
The twenty-first century is a century with high technology, abundant information, broaden internationality. The global economy and the commercializing events turn the world into a global village. Under the different culture backgrounds, people have more opportunities to communicate with each other face to face. As an international common language, English is widely used in various worldwide activities. This change of new trend puts forward a new challenge to traditional teaching methods. As a response to this challenge, English teaching of China should clarify its own teaching objectives and choose proper teaching methods so as to improve learners' ability of communication.