Digital Reform of College English Curriculum under the Background of New Liberal Arts Construction—Guided by the Integration of "Technology + Humanities"

Abstract

Under the background of new liberal arts construction, English majors in universities need to integrate interdisciplinary thinking, strengthen value guidance, and adopt digital technologies. This paper addresses problems in the current curriculum system, including superficial technology application, weakened humanistic content, and mismatch with new talent-development requirements. A digital curriculum reform scheme guided by the deep integration of “technology + humanities” is proposed. The study first analyzes the necessity and core concepts of reform, and then constructs a three-dimensional framework consisting of a bottom-level technology support layer, a curriculum content reconstruction layer, and a teaching practice innovation layer. A one-semester teaching experiment is conducted using learning analytics, multimodal corpus construction, and blended learning model reconstruction. Results show that the reformed curriculum system significantly improves students’ comprehensive language application ability, with the experimental group scoring 12.5 points higher than the control group. Critical thinking scores increase by 18.3%, and cultural confidence and ideological education-related questionnaire dimensions increase by 22.7%.