高校英语教学最主要的目的是培养和提高学生的英语交际能力,因此口语教学在高校英语教学中的地位一直以来都比较高,如何提高大学生的口语交际能力已经成为语言人才培养的重点。词汇是语言的基本构成元素,学生的词汇量对于他们的口语交际能力有直接的影响,因此想要提高高校英语口语教学成效,首先应该加强词汇教学。本文主要介绍了几种提高高校英语口语教学中词汇教学成效的方法。 The most important purpose of college English teaching is to cultivate and improve students ’communicative competence in English. Therefore, the status of oral English teaching in college English teaching has always been relatively high. How to improve college students’ oral communicative competence has become the focus of language training. Vocabulary is the basic component of language. Students’ vocabulary has a direct influence on their oral communicative competence. Therefore, to improve the effectiveness of oral English teaching in colleges and universities, vocabulary teaching should be strengthened. This article mainly introduces several ways to improve the effectiveness of vocabulary teaching in college oral English teaching.