The Characteristics of Foreign Language Education in Australia and Its Inspiration

Australia is the first English-speaking country which establishes and practices multi-languages and multi-cultures.Its foreign language education has distinctive features in terms of the policies of language education,the planning of foreign language education,the guidance of foreign language curriculums,the strategies of foreign language teaching,the training of foreign language teachers,and the use of modern scientific techniques.It has a thought-provoking effect for China to the enrichment of the theories of foreign language education,the further reform of foreign language teaching as well as the future development of foreign language education.