我国的高等教育长期以来被赋予的主要职能是:培养专门人才,进行高层次的专业化教育。这就使得我国高校根据社会经济发展的需要,对各行各业中人才的需求进行定位培养,这种教学模式已经为我国的经济建设培养了一千多万专业人才。但是,随着我国加入世贸组织,全球经济一体化的出现,改变了社会对于英语人才的需求,面对竞争日益激烈的国际贸易活动,高等院校的商务英语专业如 The main functions our country’s higher education has long been given are: to cultivate specialized personnel and to carry out high-level specialized education. This makes our colleges and universities, according to the needs of social and economic development, train the needs of talents in all trades and professions. This teaching mode has trained more than ten million professionals for our country’s economic construction. However, with China’s accession to the WTO, the emergence of global economic integration has changed the demand for English talents in the society. Facing the increasingly fierce competition in international trade activities, the business English major in colleges and universities