高职院校英语选修课长期以来面临着课程地位不明、教学组织不利等困境,通过对高职院校英语选修课程设置的科学重构,将使英语选修课实现同公共英语基础课程的有效衔接,进而为高职院校应用型人才培养创造契机。从现阶段国内高职院校人才培养目标与人才培养方向来看,应用型人才培养成为当前国内高职教育的发展方向,在这一 English elective courses in higher vocational colleges have long been faced with difficulties such as unclear status of classes and unfavorable teaching organization. Through the scientific reconstruction of English elective courses in higher vocational colleges, English elective courses will be effectively connected with the basic English curriculum. This will create opportunities for the cultivation of applied talents in higher vocational colleges. Judging from the personnel training objectives and talent cultivation directions of domestic vocational colleges in the current stage, the training of applied talents has become the current development direction of domestic higher vocational education.