电视作为20世纪80年代末90年代初中国老百姓获得更多信息的重要媒体,在各个方面响应并满足着人民的需求。随着中国的改革开放,学习英语、学好英语已被各行各业的人员放在越来越重要的位置上。电视英语教学就是电视媒体和人们学习英语需求二者相结合的产物。电视作为教学媒体有三种应用领域:电视台、闭路电视系统和节目录影。本文谈的电视英语教学节目主要指的是前两种应用领域,不包括课堂上教师利用多媒体播放的节目录影。 As an important media for Chinese people to gain more information in the late 1980s and early 1990s, television responded and fulfilled the needs of the people in all aspects. With China’s reform and opening up, learning English, and learning English well have been placing people in all walks of life in an increasingly important position. TV English teaching is the product of the combination of television media and people’s need to learn English. Television as a teaching medium has three application areas: television stations, closed-circuit television systems and program video. This article talked about the TV English teaching programs mainly refers to the first two applications, does not include classroom use of multimedia programs played by teachers video.