Ways to Improve Students' Speaking Ability in English for Careers

English for Careers is a public course for non-English majors, whose objectives are to develop students’ basic language skills for work-related activities: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. As far as the four skills are concerned, most students in higher vocational colleges have the very poor speaking ability. How to improve students’ speaking ability is a hard and urgent task for English teachers. This article sets out to analyze the reasons for this problem in English for Careers. Then, based on the second language acquisition and current teaching theory, ways of improving students’ speaking ability are suggested.