高职院校应着重培养学生的职业能力。英语教育专业学生的职业能力,主要指的是学生教授英语这门语言的能力。笔者在对英语教育专业学生的教学中,以培养职业能力为核心,以实践教学为手段使学生在提高英语水平的同时也提高了职业能力。 Higher Vocational Colleges Should Focus on Cultivating Students’ Professional Ability. The professional competence of English education major students mainly refers to the ability of students to teach the language of English. In the teaching of English majors, the author takes the cultivation of professional abilities as the core and practice teaching as a means to improve students’ abilities while improving their English.