With the employment of cognitive psychology,second language linguistics and SMS technology,this paper serves to help establish an ideal mode of adult English learning.In this mode,adult students will receive three text messages a day concerning words learning and reading comprehension,through which adult students are pushed to improve the frequency of learning.The experimental teaching found that compared with conventional teaching model based on text papers,new teaching mode does help improve learners' learning efficiency.According to the questionnaire survey,subjects also display their willingness to continue English learning by means of SMS.