高职院校是培养应用型人才的专门学校,学校致力于培养学生的实践应用能力。在英语的教学中,要秉承“实用为主,够用为度”的高职英语教学原则,积极引进先进的教学方法,交际法便是其中的一种。本文从交际教学法的含义、特点和优势出发,提出交际法在高职英语教学中的应用方法。 Higher vocational colleges are specialized schools that cultivate applied talents, and the school devotes themselves to cultivating practical ability of students. In the teaching of English, it is necessary to uphold the principle of higher vocational English teaching which is “practically dominant and enough for degree”, and actively introduces advanced teaching methods. Communication law is one of them. Based on the meaning, characteristics and advantages of communicative approach, this article puts forward the application of communicative approach in higher vocational English teaching.