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Confronted with the entangled challenges of the looming demographic cliff and the global pandemic, higher institutions have been engulfed with crippling crisis and external threats. Against this backdrop, the current research endeavored to offer a new Metaverse paradigm for English education from needs-analysis and meta-analysis results for non-fungible highfliers in metaversity. A needs analysis was performed to identify the English learning needs of 442 college students with varying majors; a meta-analysis of 37 effect sizes from 9 studies was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of Metaverse-embedded English instruction. The meta-analysis results revealed that the overall effect size of Metaverse technology for English learning is was medium and positive (0.419; 95% CI: 0.264∼0.5741) with the Q-value of 583.091 and the Higgin’s I²-value of 93.826. The effectiveness of Metaverse technology in promoting cognitive attributes was highest (0.845), followed by affective (0.572) and linguistics (0.062). The needs analysis revealed that students are in need of studying employment-related English programs such as TOEIC, English for job interviews, presentations, and so on. From the findings, this research proposes a new English education paradigm to forge ahead in the 5th industrial revolution(5IR) era.