From the angle of economic value of language, the author illustrates that foreign language education is an investment with economic value and airs her view about the significance of applying the theory to the reform of FLE.

• 并从语言的经济价值这一角度阐述了外语教育是一种具有经济价值的投资 ,指出这一理论对我国目前外语教育改革的指导意义