Abstract
Economic globalization deepens the international communication, in addition to be known as English, the language of other ethnic has been internationally known, German is one of them, as an international communication language, is between people began to seriously, along with the increase in international communication between, the cultivation of the German people gradually on the agenda, in German, produced a variety of teaching methods in the teaching process, including translation method and communicative approach, these two kinds of application of teaching methods, teaching German further development.Based on this, this paper expounds the advantages and disadvantages of the translation method and the communicative approach respectively, as well as the application limitations and improvement strategies in German teaching, for the reference of relevant personnel.