Journal of Higher Education Research

Guided by the strategy of educational digital transformation, digital technology is profoundly reshaping the form of college English teaching and has become a core engine for addressing pain points such as "homogeneous teaching, insufficient personalization, and low efficiency" to achieve quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Based on the digital transformation theory, OMO teaching theory, and constructivist learning theory, combined with the requirements of the Ministry of Education's educational digitalization policies and practical cases from multiple universities, this paper systematically analyzes the current characteristics and core bottlenecks of digitally empowered college English teaching. From four dimensions — teacher development, teaching models, resource ecology, and evaluation systems — it proposes systematic paths for quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, including hierarchical empowerment, integrated innovation, collaborative co-construction, and diversified reconstruction. This study aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for promoting the in-depth integration of digital technology and college English teaching and building a high-quality foreign language teaching system.