高职院校应该以培养学生能力为目的,让学生掌握与工作最直接的技能。作为高职英语教学,应该注重学生的能力,口语交际能力和实际运用英语的能力。但是目前的高职英语课堂的存在着这样的问题:传统教学方法,不利于形成学生的能力;教师为主体,影响学生能力的发挥。对于以上问题,笔者认为可以从以下两方面就行改革,以能力为导向选择合适的教学方法:创设情境法和合作学习法。 Higher vocational colleges should aim at cultivating students’ abilities and let students master the most direct skills of their work. As a higher vocational English teaching, we should pay attention to the students’ ability, oral communicative competence and practical ability to use English. However, there are such problems in the current English classroom of higher vocational education: the traditional teaching methods are not conducive to the formation of students’ ability; teachers are the main body, which affects the ability of students. For the above problems, I believe that from the following two aspects of reform, ability-oriented selection of appropriate teaching methods: the creation of situational law and cooperative learning.