Research on the Path Construction for Empowering the Digital and Intelligent Transformation of Undergraduate English Education in Shandong Province by New Quality Productive Forces

The development of new quality productive forces has imposed an urgent imperative for the digital and intelligent transformation of undergraduate English education. Taking undergraduate English education in Shandong Province as the research object, this study first elucidates the inherent logical connection between new quality productive forces and the digital-intelligent transformation of English education. Drawing on literature and institutional practice reports, it further identifies the practical challenges currently encountered, including superficial technological integration, insufficient digital literacy among teachers, lagging supply of high-quality resources, and imbalanced regional development. The study constructs a “Technology-Resources-Ecology” three-dimensional synergistic empowerment pathway: leveraging artificial intelligence technologies to establish personalized learning and adaptive assessment systems to drive pedagogical model reform; constructing a multimodal digital resource repository characterized by Shandong’s regional cultural features to achieve precise resource supply; and reshaping the industry-education integration ecosystem to collaboratively cultivate interdisciplinary talent equipped with “Foreign Language Digital Skills Professional Expertise.” The study concludes that the digital and intelligent transformation of undergraduate English education empowered by new quality productive forces constitutes a systemic reform process. The pathway construction delineated herein aims to provide both theoretical reference and practical guidance for language education reform in Shandong Province and comparable higher education institutions.