The current educational curriculum reform has entered the “core quality” era. Compared with the key objectives and implementation requirements of cultivating core English literacy, there are still some gaps in English teaching concepts, teaching models, teaching evaluation and so on. The main manifestations are: the discipline education value is not outstanding, the teaching mode is rigid, the teaching evaluation is single and so on. Therefore, in order to highlight the “quality-oriented” subject teaching, the reform of English teaching should explore ways out from the perspectives of subject education value, curriculum teaching model and teaching evaluation system.