Defining the meaning of innovation is based on improving the comprehensive quality of college students.

In the process of college English teaching innovation, teachers should first have innovative consciousness and spirit, consciously abandon outdated educational concepts, establish "people-oriented" and "student-oriented" educational concepts, clarify teaching objectives, carry out teaching reform according to the guidance of the Ministry of Education, clarify the direction of reform, update educational concepts and establish innovative consciousness.

In the new era, college English teaching is facing new challenges and new opportunities. What teachers should do is to face the challenge, seize the opportunity, carry out English teaching reform, change teaching concepts, innovate teaching methods and means, enrich teaching content, lead students to learn English knowledge comprehensively and efficiently with a brand-new teaching model, master this weapon of communication with the world, improve students' comprehensive quality and increase their chips in future employment. College English teaching reform is a continuous process. Teachers should make clear the goal of English teaching, face up to the obstacles in the process of achieving the goal, take reasonable measures to eliminate obstacles, implement the reform smoothly and improve the effectiveness of English teaching.