本文分析了职业能力的形成过程,培养学生职业能力的策略,对高职英语教学中职业能力培养的现状进行了调查,提出了在高职英语教学中怎样培养学生的职业能力,即在教学过程中,创设需用英语完成岗位工作的具体任务和教学情境,培养学生在职业环境下用英语处理业务的能力。 This article analyzes the forming process of vocational ability, the strategy of cultivating students ’vocational ability, investigates the present situation of vocational ability training in English teaching in higher vocational colleges, and puts forward how to cultivate students’ occupational ability in English teaching of higher vocational education, that is, , Create the specific tasks and teaching situations in which you need to complete the job in English and develop the students’ ability to handle business in English in a professional environment.