多年以来,我国的大学外语教学一直以学习语法和词汇为重点,忽视了学生综合素质的培养,导致学生“高分低能”。通过比较应试教育与素质教育的异同及分析我国大学专业外语教学的现状和存在的弊端,提出大学专业外语教学应注重贯彻素质教育,并提出实施素质教育的主要途径。 Over the years, our university foreign language teaching has been focusing on learning grammar and vocabulary, ignoring the cultivation of students’ comprehensive qualities, leading to students “high score low energy ”. By comparing the similarities and differences between examination-oriented education and quality education and analyzing the current situation and existing shortcomings of the major foreign language teaching in our country, it is suggested that the major foreign language teaching should focus on carrying out quality education and putting forward the main ways to implement quality education.