Study of the Teaching Pattern of College English as a General Education Course

The new round reform of current Chinese college English teaching focuses on achieving the fundamental change from the teaching form to teaching content,which is to use English as a carrier of general education courses to replace its main function of a language teaching course.Thus to achieve the transition from language skills training to general education is bound to become the trend of China's college English teaching reform.General education for American undergraduate has a long history and a perfect system.Its success of the general education model has brought a lot of inspiration to the present stage of college English teaching reform in China.