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In recent years, China has attached great importance to the development of vocational education and achieved ideal development results. Vocational education has gradually developed into an educational type parallel to undergraduate education. Many higher vocational colleges attach great importance to the construction of excellent courses, and the professional characteristics of specialized courses are becoming more and more obvious. However, in higher vocational colleges, compared with the rapid development of professional teaching, the development of English teaching is slightly backward. Therefore, one of the important tasks of higher vocational colleges is to strengthen the connection between English education and vocational education, and to embody vocational education as much as possible in higher vocational English education.

First, based on English textbooks, to stimulate students' interest in learning

As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher. Indeed, whether it is learning or other things, being interested has a strong driving force. English teachers must make students realize the importance of learning English knowledge and try their best to stimulate students' interest in learning. This requires English teachers to completely reverse the traditional classroom teaching mode and attract students' attention as much as possible on the basis of English textbooks. For example, English teachers can make full use of multimedia teaching technology for teaching.

In higher vocational English textbooks, great attention is paid to stimulating and cultivating students' interest in learning. Almost all texts need adequate preparation before class, such as English songs, riddles or games. Its purpose is to fully mobilize students' learning enthusiasm before formal classes. If English teachers want to fully display vocational education in English teaching, they must ensure that they can fully understand the teaching materials, activate or make the contents of English teaching materials come alive, and make students feel that the contents in the books are very attractive and closely related to their real life. The key point is to stimulate students' strong thirst for knowledge.

Second, teacher-centered, strengthen vocational education

At present, the English level of students in higher vocational colleges is uneven and the overall level is low. No matter listening, speaking, reading and writing skills are poor, some students have no interest in English learning at all and their attitudes are very incorrect. There is a very wrong idea in their concept that vocational colleges learn technology and other theoretical courses are not important. Faced with this situation, English teachers should first start with students' thoughts, let students know the importance of English learning in vocational education, and pay attention to quality education for students. Most students are disgusted and bored with English. English teachers must find a suitable way to encourage students and help them get rid of the psychological shadow.

Third, focus on cultivating students' professional English skills.

In higher vocational colleges, an important direction of English learning is employment. Therefore, English teachers should focus on the cultivation of professional English skills. Higher vocational colleges should further clarify the English teaching objectives, lay a more solid foundation for students to enter the society and participate in employment, and consider adding professional certificates to the teaching plan.

For example, Shandong Province, China, has a certificate of spoken English, and a three-level certificate of English application ability in higher vocational colleges. With this as the goal, this is also the basis of teaching, further strengthening students' English skills, enabling students to better meet the English requirements of employed people, and ensuring that students can speak a fluent set of spoken English, have a keen hearing and can translate various English materials at the same time.

In higher vocational colleges, special courses of workplace English can be added, focusing on strengthening the training of students' listening and speaking ability, and at the same time, elective courses of employment English can be set up to better familiarize themselves with English and improve their English application ability. Higher vocational colleges should realize that English class can only be used as a basic education place. In order to enable students to learn English better and improve their English application ability in an all-round way, higher vocational colleges can incorporate practical courses into English teaching, and professional teachers can lead students to visit and study in enterprises to learn how to solve problems in practical work, create a more realistic learning environment for students, and at the same time let students truly realize the importance of English knowledge in life and work.

Fourth, vocational education needs to focus on improving students' application ability.

In the actual English classroom teaching process, English teachers need to put students first, always focus on students' learning needs, adjust and change their teaching strategies in a timely and appropriate manner, set different teaching situations, assign different teaching tasks, avoid blindly following the traditional teacher-centered teaching methods, and let students have more right to speak in the classroom, and at the same time, they can put forward their own opinions and suggestions.

For example, in the teaching process of the Internet, students are very familiar with and understand the Internet. Therefore, English teachers can ask students to discuss and summarize all the network-related words they can think of, and tell them separately. Vocational education should be more targeted, professional, effective and practical.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) conclusion

To sum up, in the process of English education in higher vocational colleges, both school leaders and English teachers should realize the difference between English education in higher vocational colleges and English education in ordinary undergraduate colleges. English education in higher vocational colleges will be more specialized, so its English education must be more targeted and practical.

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