摘要：
This research article attempts to create a link between the problems
that arise when we try to introduce a European dimension in foreign
language teaching, particularly with respect to the role teacher
education institutions and programmes should play. A shift in emphasis
in foreign language teaching from form-oriented to more communicationoriented
work and culture-oriented work should not only make TEFL (Teaching
of English as a Foreign Language) approaches in Europe more
efficient and effective, but also, at the same time, offer the chance
of introducing a European dimension into the very heart of the teaching
of English as a foreign language. This means that EFL (English
as a Foreign Language) teachers, more responsibly and knowledgeably
than was the case in the past, will give shape to a kind of intercultural
foreign language education in which the unique ways of communicating
in the various European communities are highlighted. If done in
the right way, this could stimulate in our youth an awareness of
their own culture and respect for the culture of other speech communities
and nations with which we are forming a political and monetary union.
Below, an attempt will be made to elucidate this idea.
