International Journal of Education

Applied universities play a significant role in cultivating innovation and Entrepreneurship ability. As a language tool, English can comprehensively enhance students’ comprehensive quality, innovation and entrepreneurship ability. This paper studies the cultivation of students’ innovation and entrepreneurship ability based on the situation of the second classroom of college English in an applied university, aiming to explore the impact of the second classroom of college English on students’ innovation and entrepreneurship ability and the construction of the curriculum model. Through the research methods of questionnaires and interviews, this paper holds that the second classroom of college English can effectively transform and enhance students’ awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship ability. There are some aspects that need to be improved in the second classroom. This paper proposes that the innovative and entrepreneurial education knowledge system of the second classroom of college English can be constructed and improved through multiple channels such as cultural and entertainment activities and subject competitions, and an effective evaluation system can be formed to comprehensively enhance students’ innovation and entrepreneurship ability.

Applied universities; College English; Second classroom; Innovation and entrepreneurship ability