“适应社会、服务经济”是高职教育办学宗旨。但就目前高职英语教学的现状来看,某些方面已突显出与高职教改发展不相符的趋势。急需在教学目标,教学模式,课程设置和教材、实践等方面进行转变与改进,开拓思路。正确对待普遍存在承袭传统教学模式,偏于理论,缺乏宽泛的应用性技能教育,职业特点不突出,职业观念淡漠等问题。探索和实践复合型职业能力的培养目标,从而促进高职英语教育的深入发展。 “Adapt to society, service economy ” is the purpose of higher vocational education. However, in view of the current situation of English teaching in higher vocational colleges, some aspects have noticed a tendency that is inconsistent with the development of higher vocational education reform. The urgent need to change and improve the teaching objectives, teaching mode, curriculum and teaching materials, practice, etc., open up ideas. The correct treatment of the prevalence of inheritance of traditional teaching mode, partial to theory, the lack of a wide range of applied skills education, professional characteristics are not prominent, indifferent occupational concepts and other issues. Explore and practice the training objectives of the composite occupational ability, so as to promote the further development of vocational English education.