高职教育的目的是培养适应生产、建设、管理、服务第一线需要的高等技术应用性专门人才,而高职课程的基本教学原则是以就业为导向,以能力为本位。在此,在分析高职英语教学现状及问题的基础上,提出英语教学改革必须以就业为导向,把英语教学作为职业技能训练,从教学方法、教师素质、教材选择、教学评价等方面进行改革,切实提高学生的英语应用能力。 The purpose of higher vocational education is to cultivate higher technical and applied talents who meet the need of production, construction, management and service. The basic teaching principle of higher vocational courses is employment-oriented and ability-based. Based on the analysis of the status quo and problems of English teaching in higher vocational colleges, it is suggested that the reform of English teaching must take the employment as the orientation and English teaching as the vocational skills training, and should be reformed from the aspects of teaching methods, teachers’ qualifications, choice of teaching materials, teaching evaluation and so on , Effectively improve students’ ability to use English.