高职英语教学是中国职业教育的重要组成部分,但是高职学生的英语交际能力和语用能力是不尽人意的,那么如何提高高职学生的英语交际能力和语用能力呢?本文强调了社会语言学对高职英语教学的重要性,并且就如何运用社会语言学指导高职英语教学这个问题从多角度提出了一些建议,旨在社会语言学打破了语言学界历来只注重研究语言形式的传统,着重从语言与社会诸因素之间的相互关系研究语言及其运用的规律。 Vocational English teaching is an important part of vocational education in China, but vocational students’ English communicative competence and pragmatic competence are unsatisfactory. How to improve the communicative competence and pragmatic competence of vocational students in English? Sociolinguistics to the importance of English teaching in higher vocational colleges, and put forward some suggestions on how to use sociolinguistics to guide the teaching of higher vocational English from multiple perspectives. The purpose of this study is that sociolinguistics breaks the notion that linguistics has always paid more attention to the study of linguistic forms Tradition, focusing on the relationship between language and social factors of the language and the law of its application.