随着市场经济的迅速发展,高职高校为满足市场对职业人才的需求而着重培养学生的职业能力,即职业素养和职业技能,发展综合性素质人才。职业素养是社会对于职业人才的基本要求,是一种以基本道德素养为基础、以完成特定职业为目标的道德要求,即诚实守信、法制观念、敬业精神等;职业技能是对于从事某岗位所需具备的职业技术能力,将职业素养和职业技能相结合,培养出综合性职业人才。本文以培养学生职业能力为目标,以建筑类院校高职英语改革为例,进一步探讨高职高校英语教学的改革,并对促进高职英语教学改革提出相应的改革措施。 With the rapid development of market economy, higher vocational colleges focus on cultivating students’ vocational ability, that is vocational qualifications and vocational skills, and developing comprehensive quality talents in order to meet the market demand for professional talents. Professional accomplishment is the basic requirement of the society for professional talents and is a kind of moral requirement based on the basic moral accomplishment with the goal of completing certain occupations, that is, honesty and trustworthiness, legal concept and professionalism; Required vocational and technical skills, professionalism and vocational skills will be combined to develop a comprehensive professional talent. Taking the cultivation of students’ vocational ability as an objective, this paper takes the English reform in higher vocational colleges as an example to probe into the reform of English teaching in higher vocational colleges and put forward corresponding reform measures to promote the reform of English teaching in higher vocational colleges.