Under current situations at home and abroad, it has been evident that ideological and political education plays an essential role in higher education. In college, English courses that is a main front, one of the hot research foci falls to how to effectively apply and practice ideological and political education. Lack of effective theoretical foundation and support, however, the ideological and political education in many college English courses has not yet truly been blended into language teaching and learning. As a result, the problems are still obvious since they are pasted together abruptly instead of seamlessly blending the two. On the basis of the POA theory and the key competency principle, this paper aims to explore and practice the following in college-integrated English classes: 1) the organic and seamless blend of the ideological and political instruction objectives and the language instruction ones; 2) the optimized integration of the instruction contents; 3) the progressive process of the instruction; 4) the diversified assessment of the instruction, so as to make contributions to improve the quality and effectiveness of college English courses with ideological and political education.
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