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College English teaching integrating mental health education on alleviating students’ mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

Yanhong Du*
Affiliation:
Guangzhou Vocational University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510550, China
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Abstract

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Background

Mental health education is an essential part of China’s current education industry. Its main task is to provide psychological education to students through scientific means, effectively improve their psychological quality, and thereby enhance their comprehensive abilities. In college English teaching, English education is also significant teaching content. Therefore, this study aims to integrate mental health education into college English teaching to improve students’ psychological barriers.

Subjects and Methods

The study takes a class of students from a particular university as an example, combining English teaching with mental health education, and the experimental period is one semester. After the experiment, the student’s English learning situation was evaluated based on their exam scores, and the experimental data was analyzed using the software SPSS23.0.

Results

The experimental results show that the English teaching method integrating mental health education has a good effect on improving students’ psychological barriers. According to the final English exam results, 53% of students in the class have achieved varying degrees of improvement in English grades. At the same time, the questionnaire survey results show that psychological barriers have been alleviated, and their psychological quality has been improved.

Conclusions

The English teaching method that integrates mental health education has a good effect on alleviating students’ psychological barriers. At the same time, the interest in English education among students has been enhanced, improving English grades.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press