Exploration and Practice of Innovation on College English Reading and Writing Course Based on Individuals’ Needs and Mental Health

Abstract

College English is a compulsory public basic course and core general course for most non-English majors in the undergraduate education stage. It is both instrumental and humanistic, and plays an irreplaceable role in talent developing. Over the years, College English has made remarkable achievements, but facing the new situation of China’s economic development and reform and opening up, the problems exposed in instructing ideas, instructing contents, instructing means, instructing management, individuals’ knowledge structure, mental health and quality are becoming more and more obvious. How to keep pace with the times and make college English play an important role in implementing the fundamental task of Building Morality and cultivating people in colleges and Universities? It has become a research topic for the new generation of college foreign language teachers. This research project takes college learners as the research object. Through academic situation analysis and questionnaire survey, this research obtains four main problems faced by learns in College English studying. Aiming at the four main problems, combined with the requirements of College English guidelines, considering the psychological state of college students, this project sets corresponding instructing objectives and selects instructing ideas, instructing contents and instructing means. In teaching practice, the phased questionnaire survey is the main measurement method. By analyzing the data with the help of software, we can get the degree of achievement of students’ phased goals, the needs of the next stage and learners’ psychological state, and then adjust the corresponding instructing settings. The score of CET-4 (College English Test Band 4) is an important standard to measure the effectiveness of English studying in this study. This test is a national unified single subject standardized test, which can objectively and accurately measure college learners’ English ability. Through data analysis, the results of individuals’ problems are as follows: 1. More emphasis on tools, while ignoring humanism. 2. Lacking of active inquiry ability and opportunities for autonomous studying. 3. Individuals’ needs are very clear, and their reading and writing foundation is relatively weak. 4. Unstable psychological state. Based on the problems faced by students, the instructing strategies adopted are effective, which can meet the academic and employment needs of students and develop their mental health. Through academic analysis and questionnaire survey, this study established a set of strategies based on individuals’ needs and mental health, which finally proved to be effective. With the continuous enrollment expansion of new majors, especially the vigorous development of vocational undergraduate education, the results of this study will radiate more and more college English instruction and play a good exemplary role. However, the research subject is only limited to the learners of one school and one college, and the number is limited, which can not represent all the individuals studying college English, so the research still needs to be explored further.