语言的本质是交际工具,该本质决定了语言教学所遵循的原则。本文从语言的交际工具性特点着手,探讨了其在小学英语教学的重要性,倡导新的教学理念,提出了语言交际工具性的几个原则,并应建立长效机制,从而使小学英语教学回归语言教学本体,形成基础教育与高等教育相衔接的教育体系,进而促进人才的培养。 The nature of language is a communicative tool, which essentially determines the principles that language teaching follows. This article starts from the communicative instrumental features of language, discusses its importance in primary school English teaching, advocates new teaching ideas, puts forward several principles of linguistic communicative tools, and establishes a long-term mechanism so that English teaching in primary schools Return to the language teaching body, forming an education system linking basic education with higher education, and further promote the cultivation of qualified personnel.