Foreign Language Teacher Education: Retrospects, Dilemma and Prospects

Teacher Education dated back in the mid of 1980s (in general education), while in 1990s, the researches of teacher education in second or foreign language teaching started. The in-depth development of foreign language curriculum reform has triggered researchers to pay extensive attention to foreign language teacher education, which has entered a new period of development in China. Accordingly, it is very necessary to review the history of foreign language teacher education, discover its problems, and look forward to its future direction, with a view to providing useful references for future research on foreign language teacher education.