Abstract: The reform of foreign language teaching has all along gone with the course of Chinese higher education development. It is the result of the reflection and the debate on the quality of foreign language teaching, and the necessity for the integration of China's development and global development, representing the turn from scale effect to the essential development, and indicating the students'need for self-development and realization. Based on the current English teaching situation and China's need for going to the world, it is necessary for us to carry out the reform of reception foreign language teaching.

Key words: The reform of foreign language teaching of receptability, English teaching