高职院校的英语教学应以培养学生实际运用语言的能力为目标,突出教学内容的实用性和针对性。把英语文化融入课堂教学,增进学生对英语国家社会和文化的了解,有助于对英语的掌握和运用。教师应当采取多种方式方法,结合课堂教学和学生学习、生活的实际,灵活地融入英语文化的教学内容。 English teaching in higher vocational colleges should aim at cultivating students’ practical ability to use the language, highlighting practicality and pertinence of teaching contents. The integration of English culture into classroom teaching can enhance students’ understanding of the social and cultural aspects of English-speaking countries and help them to master and use English. Teachers should take a variety of ways and means, combined with classroom teaching and student learning, the reality of life, flexible integration into the teaching of English culture.