Cultivation of Innovative Thinking and Enhancement of Entrepreneurial Awareness in College English Teaching

With the rapid development of social economy and the acceleration of globalization, college English teaching needs to face the challenge of cultivating innovative thinking and entrepreneurial awareness while cultivating students' language ability. The existing college English teaching methods generally have problems such as focusing on basic language skills training and lack of innovative ability and practical ability training. To this end, this paper explores the specific strategies of incorporating innovative thinking and entrepreneurial awareness into college English teaching, and designs corresponding experimental research. First, the Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) method is adopted to drive students to use innovative thinking in English language learning through practical tasks and projects, and improve their problem-solving ability. Secondly, the case teaching method is introduced to stimulate students' entrepreneurial awareness by analyzing and discussing practical cases related to language learning. Through cooperation with other disciplines (such as business, computer science, etc.), English learning is combined with knowledge in other fields to promote the development of students' interdisciplinary thinking and improve their comprehensive problem-solving ability. The results show that the experimental group students are comparable to the control group in terms of language ability, but show significant improvement in innovative thinking and entrepreneurial awareness. In terms of English writing scores, although there are some fluctuations, the score range is between 16 and 20 points, which is relatively stable overall, with the highest score being 20 points.