随着教育方式的不断改革,高职院校对学生的英语教学也提出新的要求,一方面强调学生基础知识的牢固,另一方面还需要深入培养学生的语言运用能力。在高职英语教学中,如果渗透跨文化意识的培养,将对提高学生的语言交际能力有很大的帮助。这就要求高职教师在英语教学过程中,改进教学方法,积极设置教学情景,优化语言教学模式,让学生在了解各国文化差异的基础上,引发对不同文化背景知识的比较与思考,从而更好的培养学生的跨文化能力。 With the continuous reform of education methods, higher vocational colleges also put forward new requirements for students ’English teaching. On the one hand, they emphasize the firm foundation of students’ basic knowledge, on the other hand, they also need to cultivate their language proficiency. In the teaching of vocational English, if the penetration of cross-cultural awareness training, will improve students’ language communication ability is very helpful. This requires higher vocational teachers in English teaching process, improve teaching methods, and actively set the teaching scenarios, optimizing the language teaching mode, so that students understand the cultural differences in various countries based on the trigger on the comparison of different cultural background and thinking, and thus more Good training students cross-cultural ability.