文章针对目前土木工程专业英语教学中存在的问题，提出实践环节的教学改革，以专业知识获取为切入点，运用完善的文献检索系统，达到专业英语能力培养的目的。结果表明，通过设置合理的实践环节可有效激发学习兴趣，培养学生获取英文专业知识的能力，以此改善专业英语教学质量，培养应用型人才。

This paper presented the current status of special English teaching, and then carried out teaching reforming in practical links. This teaching reformation regards obtaining knowledge as breakthrough point based on the literature retrieval system, and aims to train practical ability. The result shows the practical links can arouse the learning interest, obtain English professional knowledge, improve the teaching quality and train applied talents.