关键词: 高校英语教学, 教学创新, 教学设计, 策略

Abstract: Teaching innovation can be defined as solving the problems in the classroom teaching. There are some problems existing widespread in college English teaching such as vague teaching objectives, teacher-centeredness, applying teaching some theories mechanically, inconsistency between language learning and language using, etc. To solve these problems, this paper, from the perspective of teaching design, suggests that college English teachers should integrate critical thinking and ideological and political education into English language learning by redesigning the classroom teaching objectives, teaching content, language context, teaching methods and learning tasks, and focusing on communication or learning the language by using it, to produce college students' proficiency of English language, critical thinking and creativity to satisfy China's needs of high-quality and creative foreign language talents.

Key words: College English teaching, Teaching innovation, Teaching design, Strategies