This study is an attempt to resolve the adaptational problems of English learning during the first year of non-English majors in a Chinese university and to help them to successfully adapt themselves to college English learning. In China, the adaptation to college English learning during the transitional period from high school to college is particularly stressful for freshmen because of various disconnections or differences between the two stages. This has received long and ongoing attention from researchers and administrators for the past decades. However, most researchers seem to pay more attention to the adaptational difficulties caused by inconsistency and disjuncture in teaching and curriculum and developing effective measures to bridge the gaps with little consideration of their individual factors. Since research on college students and the present situation of Chinese ELF education has revealed that some impediments caused by individual factors have resulted in freshmen's failure in their adaptation to college English learning, such a study provides both teachers and first-year university students with possible solutions and constructive strategies to solve the adaptational problems. In addition, it enriches and supplements the findings of previous studies in this field.