8 THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS ON SELF EXPRESSION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS
Authors: Chen Min 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
Schizophrenia is a common chronic psychological disorder characterized by brain dysfunction, with patients exhibiting cognitive and behavioral abnormalities. Although the patient’s intelligence is almost unaffected, there are abnormal mental activities, and some patients even have cognitive and self-expression deficits. Related studies have shown that drug intervention alone is ineffective. More and more scholars recommend adding psychological intervention to drug therapy for patients with schizophrenia. At present, English linguistic analysis has made some progress in improving patients’ cognitive function and self-expression level. Based on this, the study explored the effect of English linguistic intervention on improving the self-expression ability of patients with schizophrenia.

Methods
A study recruited 60 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in a certain hospital, including 30 males and 30 females, aged between 18 and 45 years old. All participants received routine treatment prior to the study and met the inclusion criteria of the study. According to the randomized controlled experimental design, patients were divided into a study group and a control group, with equal gender ratios in each group. The control group patients received conventional drug treatment. The research team added English linguistics intervention on this basis, with training content including grammar structure, vocabulary use, and thinking training. The intervention period is two months. Before and after the experiment, the self-expression ability of two groups of patients was evaluated, including grammar accuracy, language coherence, vocabulary accuracy, and emotional expression accuracy, with a scoring range of 0-5 points for each indicator.

Results
The scoring results of various indicators for the study group and control group patients before and after intervention are shown in Figure 1. According to Figure 1 (a), the study group showed significant improvements in grammar accuracy, language coherence, vocabulary accuracy, and emotional expression accuracy scores before and after treatment, with statistical differences (P&lt;0.05) in the scores before and after treatment. From Figure 1 (b), it can be seen that the control group undergoing English linguistics intervention training did not show significant improvement in various self-expression ability scores, with only grammar accuracy showing a significant improvement, while other indicators did not show statistical differences (P&gt;0.05). In addition, in the inter group comparison, there was no statistical difference in the indicators between the two groups before intervention. After intervention, the scores of various indicators in the study group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P&lt;0.05).

Discussion
The results of the study indicate that English linguistic intervention can significantly improve the self-expression ability of patients with schizophrenia, specifically in terms of grammar accuracy, language coherence, vocabulary accuracy, and emotional expression accuracy. Indicating that linguistic intervention can help improve the language expression ability of patients with schizophrenia, enhance their cognitive function and emotional expression accuracy. Future research can focus on comparing different linguistic intervention methods to explore whether certain specific language training patterns have higher efficiency in improving patients’ language abilities.