随着我国社会经济的发展和对外开放的深入,英语对经济发展和日常生活变得越来越重要。高职高专的英语教学存在一个很严重的弊端,很大程度上限制了高职高专学生英语能力的提高。这个问题就是高职高专英语专业学生对西方文化了解太少。在高职高专英语专业的日常教学中,老师注重培养学生听、说、读、写的能力,往往忽略了对西方文化的教学。本文详细分析了高职高专英语教学中的文化教学并提出针对性建议。 With the development of our society and economy and the deepening of opening to the outside world, English becomes more and more important to economic development and daily life. English teaching in higher vocational colleges has a very serious drawback, which largely limits the improvement of English ability of students in higher vocational colleges. The problem is that English majors in higher vocational colleges have too little knowledge of western culture. In the daily teaching of English majors in higher vocational colleges and universities, the teacher pays attention to cultivating students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, often ignoring the teaching of western culture. This article analyzes in detail the cultural teaching in English teaching of higher vocational colleges and puts forward some suggestions.