大学英语费时低效的问题正在受到人们的广泛重视 ,但过去的讨论一直围绕着大学英语教学的内部原因。本文则试图证明 :我国目前的整体社会环境、社会教育体系、高校教育教学体系等层面分别存在着缺乏可见的社会需求目标、本体认识不清晰、课堂教学信息密集度过高等问题 ,这些对于英语学习者在学习的必要性、学习的动机和内容、学习的方法上有着很大的制约作用。本文进而提出 :解决大学英语费时低效问题除内部努力外 ,还要有效改善社会环境 ,明确大学英语教育教学的社会目的 ,全面改革高校教育教学体系 The problem of time-inefficient college English is gaining widespread attention, but past discussions have revolved around the internal causes of college English teaching. This article tries to prove that there are some problems such as the lack of visible target of social needs, the unclear noumenon ontology and the high concentration of classroom teaching information in China’s current overall social environment, social education system and college education system. In the necessity of learning, motivation and content of learning, learning methods have a great constraint. This article further points out that in addition to the internal efforts to solve the problem of time-consuming and inefficient college English, it is necessary to effectively improve the social environment, to clarify the social purpose of college English teaching and to comprehensively reform the education system of higher education