各大高职高专院校的扩招造成学生英语水平的参差不齐,因此对我们教师的课堂教学提出了新的更高的要求,公共英语课堂教学改革迫在眉睫。本文通过引入管理学中的激励理论,对学生进行有效激励,调动学生的学习积极性、主动性,以实现公共英语教学质量的提升。 The enrollment enlargement of the major higher vocational colleges and universities has caused the students’ English proficiency to be uneven. Therefore, we put forward new and higher requirements for the classroom teaching of our teachers. The reform of the public English classroom teaching is imminent. In this paper, by introducing the theory of motivation in management, students can be effectively motivated to arouse their enthusiasm and initiative in order to improve the quality of public English teaching.