The Development of Production-Oriented Approach

Abstract

In 2007, Professor Wen Qiufang put forward output-driven hypothesis, which was developed into output-driven, input-enabled hypothesis in 2014, and into Production-oriented Approach (POA) in 2015. The theoretical system of POA, which was firstly formed in 2015, was revised in 2017, and further revised in 2018. Starting with brief introduction of POA and analysis about the influences of three important International Forums on Innovative Foreign Language Education in China, this paper mainly talks about the development of POA, and falls the progress into five stages, whose innovations are elaborated in this paper. In the end, the paper poses some problems of POA to be solved in the near future.