Southeast University has a long history of foreign language teaching. As early as 1902, at the beginning of the establishment of Sanjiang Normal School, Japanese teaching was set up for the first time to facilitate the "knowledge exchange" between Chinese and Japanese teaching. School 1903 started, offering 17 courses, one in English and one in Japanese. 19 17 has an English major, 1920 has an English department, 192 1 has a western literature department, 1923 western literature department, English department, Germany, France and Japan merged into a foreign language department.
The School of Foreign Languages has always been a gathering of humanities and famous scholars. Famous scholars who have presided over the School of Foreign Languages successively include Wu Mi (Harvard), Mei Guangdi (Harvard), Lou (Harvard), Zhang Shiyi (Columbia University) and famous poet Wen Yiduo. In nearly a hundred years of teaching practice, Dongda Foreign Languages Institute has trained a large number of famous scholars, experts and senior talents at home and abroad for the country, among which Lv Shuxiang, a famous linguist, is an outstanding representative.
Dongda Foreign Languages Institute keeps pace with the times and develops day by day. Faculty 152 people, including professors 1 1 person, 42 associate professors, and 57 teachers with doctoral, master's and postgraduate degrees. At present, 13 teachers are studying for doctors and 25 are studying for masters. Master tutor 19. In the past four years, nearly 50 teachers have gone to foreign universities for further study or participated in international and domestic academic conferences at different levels. Our college also hired nine well-known scholars in the foreign language field (Professor Wang Ning, Shu, Xu Jun, Zhou,,,, He Gaoda) as part-time professors of English and Japanese in Southeast University. We employ 6-8 foreign cultural and educational experts all the year round, and a considerable number of foreign visiting scholars come for short-term visits and lectures every year.
In the past four years, two teachers won the first prize, four teachers won the second prize and eight teachers won the third prize in the teaching competition for young teachers in our school. 1 teacher won Baosteel Teaching Award and Southeast University Excellent Teaching Award, 6 teachers won the first prize of school-level excellent teaching, and 20 teachers won the second prize of school-level excellent teaching. A teacher won the second prize in the teaching competition for young English teachers in colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province.
In order to better promote the transformation of our college from a teaching-oriented unit to a teaching-research unit and build a platform for talent training and talent introduction, our college has established five school-level research institutes and 1 research centers, which provide a good foundation for the interaction and integration of teaching and scientific research, and for the training and construction of talents and teachers. The above measures have also effectively promoted the development of related disciplines in our department from basic teaching to teaching research.
The School of Foreign Languages has six languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Russian and Latin, and undertakes the first and second foreign language teaching at all levels from junior college students to doctoral students. The Department of Foreign Languages also offers courses for English majors (including junior college students), Japanese majors, English masters and Japanese masters, and has the right to award bachelor's degrees in English, Japanese, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, English language and literature, and Japanese language and literature.
1, Master of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (English):
Postgraduates are officially enrolled in this major from 65438 to 0997. His research interests include second language acquisition, ESP, English teaching methods, textbook research, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, language testing, cross-cultural communication and modern foreign language education technology. Graduates are mainly engaged in English teaching and research in colleges and universities, foreign affairs in government enterprises and institutions, and economic and trade work.
2. Master of English Language and Literature:
In 2004, the major officially enrolled graduate students, whose research interests include foreign literature, foreign linguistics, translation theory and skills, and western literary theory. Graduates are mainly engaged in English teaching and research in colleges and universities, foreign affairs in government enterprises and institutions, and economic and trade work.
3. Master of Japanese Language and Literature Program:
In 2004, the major officially enrolled graduate students, whose research interests include Japanese linguistics, Japanese literature, Japanese culture and folk customs. Graduates are mainly engaged in English teaching and research in colleges and universities, foreign affairs in government enterprises and institutions, and economic and trade work.
4, English major (four-year undergraduate):
English majors have three major directions: foreign trade English, English language and literature and English education. This major focuses on imparting English knowledge and language application skills, strengthening the second foreign language ability, integrating knowledge of economy, trade, science and management, and cultivating high-quality compound English professionals to meet the needs of social and economic development. Graduates have a solid basic knowledge of English, strong language and cultural communication skills, good economic and trade, scientific and technological quality and strong computer application ability, master certain scientific research methods, and can engage in translation, scientific research, teaching and management in foreign affairs, economy and trade, culture, press and publication, education, scientific research, tourism and other departments.
5. English (Business English) (upgraded version):
In order to meet the needs of China's entry into the WTO, this major focuses on English, supplemented by business, and cultivates the basic knowledge and skills of existing college staff to meet the requirements of English and business undergraduate courses and cultivate high-quality compound English professionals to meet the needs of social and economic development. Graduates have a solid basic knowledge of English, strong language and cultural communication ability, good economic and trade, scientific and technological quality and strong computer application ability, and can engage in foreign affairs, economy and trade, culture, press and publication, education, scientific research, tourism and other work.
6, Japanese major (four-year undergraduate):
Students in this major mainly study the basic theories and knowledge of Japanese language and literature, economy and trade, strengthen their second foreign language ability, receive good training in Japanese listening, speaking, reading, writing, translation and scientific research, master certain scientific research methods, lay a solid basic language skills for further study or engage in translation, scientific research, teaching, industry and commerce, and cultivate good quality and ability.
Southeast University is one of the eight pilot universities of the national college English teaching reform from 65438 to 0998 by the Ministry of Education, the first batch of pilot units of the national college English oral test, and the first batch of pilot units of the national college English teaching model reform based on modern network technology in 2004. The School of Foreign Languages is committed to exploring ways and means to reform the curriculum system of college English, English and Japanese majors, so as to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of training foreign language professionals and improve the comprehensive foreign language quality of college students.
For many years, the School of Foreign Languages has been committed to the reform of college English teaching. Seminars on teaching ideas and academic topics are held every semester, and management documents such as College English Teaching Syllabus, College English Teaching Syllabus, Teaching Evaluation Index of Foreign Languages Department, and Measures for the Administration of Teaching and Scientific Research of Foreign Languages Department of Southeast University are formulated. We have established and constantly improved a variety of teaching modes based on modern educational technology and a teaching system combining the first class with the second class, and the foreign language learning environment has been continuously optimized, which has achieved excellent results. College English in our school won the title of first-class excellent course in Jiangsu Province in 2002, the special prize of excellent teaching in Southeast University in 2004 and the glorious title of excellent course in Ministry of Education in 2004. In 2005, he won the second prize of national teaching achievement of the Ministry of Education.
In recent years, English majors have revised the syllabus twice, highlighting the professional direction of cultivating high-level compound talents, and the one-time employment rate of graduates has reached 100%. The course construction and teaching reform have made gratifying achievements. Students not only rank among the best in CET-4 and CET-6, but also improve their comprehensive quality through a series of English activities. In the 6th FLTRP Cup National College English Debate Competition held in Beijing in April, 2002, our students stood out from 82 teams and won the third place, and participated in the Asian College English Debate Competition held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2002.
Japanese majors continue to enrich and improve the teaching syllabus, and the quality of personnel training has improved rapidly. The one-time employment rate of graduates reaches 100%. In 2004, 1 won the second prize in the Japanese professional speech contest of Nanjing University, and 1 won the third prize in the composition contest of Japan Institute of International Exchange. Three students won the special prize, the first prize and the encouragement prize respectively, and two students were given short-term study opportunities in Japan. Japanese undergraduates have been enrolled since 1999. At that time, our department accounted for three of the top five Japanese proficiency tests in East China, and one of them got 1 in East China, ranking fourth in the country. In the international Japanese proficiency test in 2003, the top three students in the same major in Nanjing universities were students of our department.
The reform of postgraduate English teaching in our university has also made gratifying achievements in teaching courses, teaching contents, teaching methods and evaluation methods. Postgraduate English won the first prize of excellent postgraduate courses in Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education in 2002. German, French, Russian and other languages are also constantly improving teaching methods and means, and have successfully completed various teaching tasks. German and French teachers are the directors of the national foreign language teaching research association in colleges and universities, and members of the teaching syllabus design group and teaching material compilation group in colleges and universities, which have won a place for our school in the field of German and French teaching in colleges and universities.
In the past five years, the academic and scientific research activities of the School of Foreign Languages have shown an unprecedented good momentum, undertaking more than 50 scientific research projects such as teaching, social science and textbook development. Among them, the Ministry of Education and provincial and ministerial projects have reached nearly 30. The total amount of scientific research funds exceeds 6,543,800 yuan. At present, it is developing in the direction of paying equal attention to teaching and scientific research.
Over the past four years, more than 200 papers have been published in various academic journals, including nearly 40 papers published in national foreign language core journals. Yu Ben edited and published Experiencing English and other influential textbooks in the whole province and even the whole country, which is the textbook of the tenth five-year plan for general higher education in China. Among them, the series "College Basic English" edited by Professor Li Xiaoxiang of our department won the second prize of the National Excellent Textbook for Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education in 2002; College English in the New Century was awarded the title of Excellent Recommended Textbook in the Tenth Five-Year Plan by the Ministry of Education. In addition, many books have won various provincial and ministerial awards and achieved considerable social benefits.
Two sets of multimedia courseware (College English Intensive Reading (Revised Edition) and College English Comprehensive Course *** 16 CD) developed by our college have been published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, and have been used in nearly 500 colleges and universities all over the country, and won unanimous praise. College English (revised edition) multimedia teaching courseware and comprehensive practice courseware won the first prize and the third prize in the multimedia courseware competition of Jiangsu Education Department in 2002. The research and development of multimedia teaching courseware in our department has been at the forefront of domestic universities, and has achieved good social impact and benefits.
In order to speed up the development of discipline construction in our department, better promote the transformation of our college from a teaching-oriented unit to a teaching-research unit, and create a platform for talent training and talent introduction in our department, our college has formulated and tried out the Measures for the Management of Scientific Research Achievements of Foreign Languages Department of Southeast University, and established the Institute of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, the Institute of Modern Foreign Language Education Technology of Southeast University, the Institute of Translation, the Institute of Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature, the Institute of Basic Foreign Language Education and the Research and Development Center of Foreign Language Textbooks, which have strengthened the academic atmosphere of scientific research and improved the academic level of teachers.
In the past five years, the academic and scientific research activities of the School of Foreign Languages have shown an unprecedented good momentum, undertaking more than 50 scientific research projects such as teaching, social science and textbook development. Among them, the Ministry of Education and provincial and ministerial projects have reached nearly 30. The total amount of scientific research funds exceeds 6,543,800 yuan. At present, it is developing in the direction of paying equal attention to teaching and scientific research.
Over the past four years, more than 200 papers have been published in various academic journals, including nearly 40 papers published in national foreign language core journals. Yu Ben edited and published Experiencing English and other influential textbooks in the whole province and even the whole country, which is the textbook of the tenth five-year plan for general higher education in China. Among them, the series "College Basic English" edited by Professor Li Xiaoxiang of our department won the second prize of the National Excellent Textbook for Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education in 2002; College English in the New Century was awarded the title of Excellent Recommended Textbook in the Tenth Five-Year Plan by the Ministry of Education. In addition, many books have won various provincial and ministerial awards and achieved considerable social benefits.
Two sets of multimedia courseware (College English Intensive Reading (Revised Edition) and College English Comprehensive Course *** 16 CD) developed by our college have been published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, and have been used in nearly 500 colleges and universities all over the country, and won unanimous praise. College English (revised edition) multimedia teaching courseware and comprehensive practice courseware won the first prize and the third prize in the multimedia courseware competition of Jiangsu Education Department in 2002. The research and development of multimedia teaching courseware in our department has been at the forefront of domestic universities, and has achieved good social impact and benefits.
In order to speed up the development of discipline construction in our department, better promote the transformation of our college from a teaching-oriented unit to a teaching-research unit, and create a platform for talent training and talent introduction in our department, our college has formulated and tried out the Measures for the Management of Scientific Research Achievements of Foreign Languages Department of Southeast University, and established the Institute of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, the Institute of Modern Foreign Language Education Technology of Southeast University, the Institute of Translation, the Institute of Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature, the Institute of Basic Foreign Language Education and the Research and Development Center of Foreign Language Textbooks, which have strengthened the academic atmosphere of scientific research and improved the academic level of teachers.
In the past five years, the academic and scientific research activities of the School of Foreign Languages have shown an unprecedented good momentum, undertaking more than 50 scientific research projects such as teaching, social science and textbook development. Among them, the Ministry of Education and provincial and ministerial projects have reached nearly 30. The total amount of scientific research funds exceeds 6,543,800 yuan. At present, it is developing in the direction of paying equal attention to teaching and scientific research.
Over the past four years, more than 200 papers have been published in various academic journals, including nearly 40 papers published in national foreign language core journals. Yu Ben edited and published Experiencing English and other influential textbooks in the whole province and even the whole country, which is the textbook of the tenth five-year plan for general higher education in China. Among them, the series "College Basic English" edited by Professor Li Xiaoxiang of our department won the second prize of the National Excellent Textbook for Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education in 2002; College English in the New Century was awarded the title of Excellent Recommended Textbook in the Tenth Five-Year Plan by the Ministry of Education. In addition, many books have won various provincial and ministerial awards and achieved considerable social benefits.
Two sets of multimedia courseware (College English Intensive Reading (Revised Edition) and College English Comprehensive Course *** 16 CD) developed by our college have been published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, and have been used in nearly 500 colleges and universities all over the country, and won unanimous praise. College English (revised edition) multimedia teaching courseware and comprehensive practice courseware won the first prize and the third prize in the multimedia courseware competition of Jiangsu Education Department in 2002. The research and development of multimedia teaching courseware in our department has been at the forefront of domestic universities, and has achieved good social impact and benefits.
In order to speed up the development of discipline construction in our department, better promote the transformation of our college from a teaching-oriented unit to a teaching-research unit, and create a platform for talent training and talent introduction in our department, our college has formulated and tried out the Measures for the Management of Scientific Research Achievements of Foreign Languages Department of Southeast University, and established the Institute of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, the Institute of Modern Foreign Language Education Technology of Southeast University, the Institute of Translation, the Institute of Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature, the Institute of Basic Foreign Language Education and the Research and Development Center of Foreign Language Textbooks, which have strengthened the academic atmosphere of scientific research and improved the academic level of teachers.
The Foreign Language Laboratory of the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University was founded in the early 1980s. With the development of foreign language teaching and reform, the technology and means of foreign language education in our department have also made a qualitative leap. At present, the foreign language education technology center of our college has 12 modern multimedia language laboratory and foreign language computer multimedia language laboratory, 2 multimedia classrooms and 3 foreign language teaching broadcasting stations. At present, the foreign language education technology center is constantly improving and upgrading its service function, which provides strong support and guarantee for promoting the application of modern educational technology in foreign language teaching, continuously optimizing the foreign language teaching environment and improving the quality of foreign language teaching.
Since 1986, the School of Foreign Languages has established good communication and cooperation with many foreign universities and academic institutions, among which the communication and cooperation with the American English Association, the British Council, Aichi University of Technology in Japan and Macmillan Publishing Company in Britain have achieved satisfactory results in teacher training and teaching material development. Since 1989, the Department of Foreign Languages has sent dozens of teachers to universities in the United States, Britain, Singapore, India and other countries for academic and cultural exchanges, lectures and further studies. This has not only trained and exercised the teaching staff, but also broadened the channels of exchanges and cooperation with universities at home and abroad, and made gratifying achievements in expanding the international influence and academic popularity of Southeast University.
In recent years, the School of Foreign Languages has opened up various forms of running schools, and tried to run schools jointly with foreign universities, so as to promote the reform and development of foreign language education in our department, promote the construction and development of foreign language disciplines and majors in our department, and improve the academic qualifications and professional level of foreign language teachers, and achieved initial results. From July to September, 2003, according to the agreement between the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University and the Department of Language Studies of Canterbury Christian University College in England, the first batch of 18 graduate students and teachers from the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University went to Canterbury Christian University College in England, which was a complete success. In 2003, the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University and the University of Sydney, Australia agreed to jointly run a school to train TESOL/ language-oriented education postgraduates, which contributed to the construction of foreign language teachers in China. This is also a beneficial attempt for Southeast University to further cooperate with international universities and actively promote the internationalization of education.
In addition, the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University is currently planning inter-school exchange projects with Tohoku University and Wako University in Japan, exchanging students and teachers, and conducting cooperative research on language and culture topics between China and Japan.
At present, the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University is the examiner of self-taught Japanese examination in Jiangsu Province, the test center of international Japanese proficiency test (JPT) in Jiangsu Province, the test center of practical Japanese appraisal (J.TEST), the foreign language test center of overseas training candidates in Jiangsu Province (BFT), the Nanjing test center of international English test system (IELTS), the national translation (interpretation) qualification test center, and the oral test center of CET-4 and CET-6 in Jiangsu Province.
Over the years, Foreign Languages Institute has provided various kinds of foreign language training and consultation for domestic and foreign educational circles, enterprises and institutions in Jiangsu Province by virtue of its own teachers and scientific research strength. The training covers IELTS basic and intensive training, CET-4 and CET-6 intensive training before written test and oral test, oral training for foreign teachers, intensive training before international Japanese proficiency test, intensive training for German zero-point overseas test and intensive training for French zero-point overseas test. And provide translation of business documents and materials, as well as interpretation of business activities and other foreign-related services.
The School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University wholeheartedly provides all kinds of foreign language talents training for all walks of life, enterprises and institutions, and can offer full-time classes, amateur classes, long-term classes and short-term classes according to the situation, and strive to provide high-quality teachers and good services for all walks of life.