With the deepening of the New Curriculum reform, the purpose of improving students’ core competencies has been put on the agenda. It is found that there are various challenges in high school English teaching, such as teachers’ superficial understanding of the New Curriculum Standards, outdated evaluation methods, and exam-oriented teaching objectives. Therefore, a series of strategies are proposed, including integrating classroom teaching into real life, optimizing the content and form of teaching materials, adopting activity-based approach and improving teachers’ professionalism. These strategies aim to offer some help to improve the overall quality of senior high school English teaching, and to improve students’ core competencies.

New curriculum reform;High school English teaching;Core competencies;Cultivation strategie

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.62639/sspjiess15.20250203

Published： 2025