美育是当代教育的重要组成部分,在学校教育中发挥着积极的作用。尤其是在外语教学中,既能促进学生运用英语进行交际能力的提高,又有助于学生吸取课文中美好的道德情操,从而培养学生高尚健康的审美观。现结合大学英语教学中的一些特征,对如何在大学英语教学中实施美育功能进行了探索。 Aesthetic education is an important part of contemporary education and plays an active role in school education. Especially in foreign language teaching, it can not only promote the improvement of students’ communicative competence in English, but also help students absorb the good moral sentiments in the texts so as to cultivate their noble and healthy aesthetic values. Nowadays some characteristics of college English teaching are combined to explore how to implement aesthetic education in college English teaching.