2024年伊始,外语教育学正式宣告成为我国外国语言文学的二级学科。然而,这个新学科刚刚起步,亟需借鉴其他成熟学科的研究成果,夯实基础。教育语言学是研究语言与教育之间互动关系的学科,能为外语教育学的发展提供借鉴、启示。从教育语言学的视角来看,外语教育学可以理解为研究外语与教育之间互动关系的学科,肩负着教育(及社会)的外语和外语的教育两个方面的基本任务:外语在我国教育及其社会活动中的作用是外语教育学的基本立足点。这个立足点决定了外语教育学理论研究的目标和范围,也决定了学科实践的基本理念和方法,即外语教育需把外语技能、外语知识和学科知识融为一体,实现工具性和人文性的统一,充分发挥外语在教育和社会活动中的重要作用,促进个体、社会和国家的和谐发展。

Since the beginning of 2024, foreign language education has been officially established as a new discipline in China. Still at its infant stage, this new discipline needs to learn from relevant mature disciplines to consolidate its foundation. Educational linguistics, focusing on the interaction between language and education, is one of the mature disciplines that can provide useful insights and inspirations for the development of foreign language education. From the perspective of educational linguistics, foreign language education can be interpreted as a discipline focusing on the interaction between foreign language and education. It has two main tasks: the study on the role of foreign language in education (and in society) and the study on the education of and through foreign language. The role of foreign language in educational and other social activities in China is the start point, which determines the objective and scope of the theory of the discipline, and also conditions the principle and methodology of its practice. In summary, foreign language education should integrate the education of language skills, language knowledge and disciplinary knowledge, so as to simultaneously fulfil its instrumental and humanistic functions, bring foreign language into full use in educational and social activities, and thus ultimately enable the harmonious development of individual learners, social communities and the country as a whole.