英语是一门兼具知识性、工具性、实践性和人文性的学科。在大力倡导和谐社会的今天,探索英语人文性教学已十分必要。当代世界教育思想的潮流,是把人作为教育的出发点和归宿,强调“以人为本”。人文精神是一种普遍的人类自我关怀,表现为对人的尊严、价值、命运的维护、追求和关切。此课题针对大学英语教学中普遍存在的缺乏人文关怀的现象,提出了一些见解,旨在通过英语课堂给学生提供一个自由思辨和加强人文素质的舞台,为大学英语教学找到一片阳光灿烂之地。 English is a subject that is both informative, instrumental, practical and humane. In advocating a harmonious society today, to explore the teaching of English humanities has been very necessary. The current trend of educational thinking in the world is to regard people as the starting point and end-result of education, emphasizing “people-oriented ”. Humanistic spirit is a universal human self-care manifested in the maintenance, pursuit and concern of human dignity, value and destiny. Aiming at the phenomenon of lacking of humane care in college English teaching, this paper puts forward some opinions to provide students with a stage of freedom to think and strengthen humanistic quality through English classroom, and find a sunny place for college English teaching.