The development of information technology and the progress of the educational information process provide technical support for the construction of a distance learning environment for learning English. Online teaching mode is a new thing for people, and it is more and more accepted by people familiar with it. We summarize and analyze the texts of short messages generated by students’ online learning, so as to fully understand students, make effective adjustments to the classroom, guide teachers’ teaching practices, optimize the classroom, and improve students’ learning, practical, and innovative abilities, in order to study the effect of online teaching on improving the ability and skills of learning English efficiently. This paper builds wireless distance teaching based on the English learning system of mobile edge computing and uses the method of case analysis and literature analysis to collect data from the database. A model was built based on online teaching, and a large number of relevant documents were read and analyzed through the literature survey method. The results of the study show that online teaching can effectively improve students’ oral and reading abilities. Students’ oral and reading abilities are about 30% higher than traditional teaching methods, and the awareness of cooperation among students has also increased by 80% compared to before, which solves the problem of popularization and improvement. The contradiction and the resolution of polarization and the transformation of underachievers, so that students’ personalities can be brought into full play and development, and college education will be on the track of quality education. This shows that the wireless long-distance teaching environment constructed by the English learning system based on mobile edge computing can play an excellent role in improving English ability.

With the development of information technology in recent years, people have integrated English reading with information technology, which is conducive to improving the ability of English reading and cultivating the humanistic spirit of college students. This paper aims to study how to play the role of English reading in the cultivation of college students’ humanistic spirit based on the embedded sensor system. This paper proposes an embedded speech recognition technology algorithm and a speech recognition technology algorithm based on dynamic time warping. Speech recognition technology is conducive to the improvement of English reading efficiency, as well as improving the reading interest of college students. The experimental results of this paper show that the speed of English development has become faster and faster in recent years, from 30% in 2011 to 55% in 2020. Although it fluctuates in the middle, the overall trend is upward. People pay more and more attention to English, and the proportion of English reading is gradually increasing, from about 20% in 2011 to about 41%. Therefore, it can be known that the importance of English reading is getting higher and higher, and it is necessary to cultivate the humanistic spirit of college students through English reading.