In the digital-intelligence era, emerging digital and intelligent technologies have brought profound changes to educational models, posing new challenges and opportunities for cultivating college students' English reading abilities. This paper discusses the connotation and characteristics of English reading ability in the digital-intelligence era. It identifies current issues such as insufficient innovative thinking in English reading, a lack of deep reading skills, and weak digital reading abilities among college students. To address these issues, the paper proposes strategies including enhancing critical reading training to foster innovative thinking, reshaping deep reading habits to improve deep reading, and integrating digital literacy education to develop digital-intelligent reading skills. Ultimately, these approaches aim to comprehensively improve college students' English reading abilities in the digital-intelligence era, thereby enhancing their overall quality and international competitiveness.

Lihao Wu, Jinyuan Zeng. Cultivating College Students' English Reading Ability in the Digital-intelligence Era. Frontiers in Educational Research(2025), Vol. 8, Issue 4: 54-59. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080408.

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