Abstract:

Since the 1960s, China’s foreign language education has been too closely following the modern linguistics and its development. As a result, it has strayed into a narrowing path of metaphysicalization and dogmatization. Therefore, though China’s foreign language education has made great achievements, a lot of problems have also ensued in its development. To reflect, and rediscover the positive elements of the traditional philological foreign language education, restore the presence of the classics of literature, history, and philosophy in foreign language education, properly handle the relation between linguistics and literature, history and the present, and the relation between China and the western world, and draw on the different schools of postmodern philosophy such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of language,practical philosophy etc. which check and balance metaphysics and dogmatism, is of much importance for China’s foreign language education to walk out of the current self-identity crisis and confusion, and the facelift of the discipline of foreign language education as a whole. Also it is essential for the current discussion and the further reform of foreign language education in China.

Key words: foreign language education, discipline, metaphysics, dogmatism, self-identity