This paper expounds the basic assumption and thinking on the reform of higher vocational education of arts in the aspects of the aim and mould of teaching, the opening of characteristic courses, the rationalization of teaching plan, the reforms of examination, the construction of bases for practice and so on.

Integrating the author s own experience of English teaching,on the basis of the specialty of the higher vocational college students in arts,the paper analyzes the situations of the students English learning from the perspectives of pedagogy,psychology and linguistics to know clearly the changing characteristics of English learning.

Exploration of Art Teaching in Higher Vocational Education;

Particularly in vocational art education, it is both creating and training of professional and technical personnel of the cradle of art, but also commitment to the cause of promoting the continuous development of art to enhance the aesthetic and cultural qualities of the whole nation of historical responsibility.