Abstract: Specialized English is a cross-disciplinary course that closely combines professional technology with English knowledge after the continuation of public English courses in higher education.This course aims to increase students’ specialized vocabulary and reading capacity, improve their reading and listening ability of specialized papers or materials, strengthen their English expression ability of specialized knowledge, and lay a foundation for students’ further study or employment. Based on teaching practice, this paper summarizes the problems existing in the current Specialized English for surveying and Mapping Engineeringcourse, such as obsolete teaching content, lagging teaching materials, single teaching method and so on. A series of concrete reform methods are proposed, such as updating teaching content, setting up diversified teaching links, making full use of new media. These strategies are applied in teaching practice to improve teaching effect and teaching quality.

Key words: surveying and mapping engineering, specialized English, teaching method, teaching research, teaching reform