当前,职业院校教育教学遇到了前所未有的挑战,而作为职业院校学生学习基础的普通文化课——英语学科教学亦不容乐观。当前中国的高职高专教育正在起步,并在短期内迅速发展。然而,高职高专英语教学却未能与时俱进,在学生、教师、教材、教法等方面存在诸多问题。本文通过分析这些问题,提出一些优化高职高专英语教学的建议。 At present, vocational education and teaching have encountered unprecedented challenges. However, as a general cultural course based on students’ learning in vocational colleges, English teaching is not optimistic either. At present, higher vocational education in China is starting to develop rapidly in the short term. However, English teaching in higher vocational colleges has failed to keep pace with the times. There are many problems in students, teachers, teaching materials, teaching methods and so on. By analyzing these problems, this paper puts forward some suggestions to optimize English teaching in higher vocational colleges.