作者：赵乐
　　【Abstract】English speaking competition， as the only English competition among the other competitions， is highly favored by vocational colleges and enterprises and has become the key factor for educational management and teaching evaluation institution to measure the English teaching quality among the higher vocational colleges. The participating colleges pay high attention to the competition； investigate many qualified teachers and even massive financial supports. teachers should focus on the long-term tutorship and benefit students with effective method which is perpetually advantageous.
　　【Key words】English speaking competition； core vocational ability； practical training
　　【作者簡介】赵乐，沈阳职业技术学院。
　　The English speaking competition has inspected students’ comprehensive qualities which are core professional abilities in workplace circumstance. Hence teachers should focus on long-term cultivation and ability training. There are three steps of speaking competition assistance basic on the cultivation of core professional ability.
　　There should be three stages of the whole assistance： First stage： knowledge accumulation， foundation consolidation. Second stage：Knowledge systematization and ability cultivation. Third stage： techniques training， practical improvements. The concrete implementation plans are shown as fellows.
　　1. First stage： Knowledge accumulation and Foundation consolidation. If there is no amount of quantitative accumulation， it is hard to make a progress of qualitative breakthrough. Teachers should start competition assistance with the foundation which could consolidate the base of English knowledge and information storage by spending enough time on it.
　　Due to the dominant position that pronunciation and intonation possess， they are naturally ranked among the prominent marking criteria. In this stage， students’ ability of listening， pronunciation and expression will be improved by immersion teaching method of providing them with classic audiovisuals such as ‘American Idol’， VOA， CRI and some American films. It is good choice for students to imitate the pronunciation of actors. In allusion to students’ weakness like too-fast speaking， over-formal oral expression， teacher should make a targeted training.
　　2. Second stage： Knowledge systematization and ability cultivation. After the accumulation of the first stage， students’ knowledge reserve and language base have improved increasingly. The main task of the second stage should be systematize knowledge and improve comprehensive ability. This will in some extent tie up students’ thought，， having no advantage of fostering creative thinking.