1978 English majors began to enroll students, and 1988 was approved by the State Council Academic Degree Office as a master's degree awarding unit for foreign linguistics and applied linguistics. In 2000, it was approved as a master's degree authorization point for English language and literature, and in 2005, it was approved as a first-class master's degree authorization point for foreign language and literature. In the same year, he began to recruit master students majoring in Russian language and literature. 20 1 1 With the approval of the 28th meeting of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, the right to award doctoral degrees in foreign languages and literature was added.

The School of Foreign Languages consists of English Department, German Department, Russian Department, Translation Department, College English Teaching Department, Postgraduate Foreign Language Teaching Department, Minority Language Teaching Department, Language Research Center, British and American Literature Research Center, Translation Research Center and Curriculum Research Center. There are also two editorial departments, College English and Foreign Language and Literature Studies.

The Institute of Foreign Languages currently has 130 faculty members, among whom 37.4% are professors and associate professors, 22 are doctoral students, 93.9% have master's degree or above, and foreign teachers 14 are responsible for foreign language teaching, teaching assistance and party and government management. In addition, more than 65,438+00 visiting professors or foreign experts have been hired, such as, Yu, Robert Hanis and William Littlewood. Our college has a 2 1 language laboratory and two large-scale audio-visual classrooms. There are more than 30,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals and books in the Foreign Language Resource Center. Undergraduate and graduate students 45 1.

In recent years, the Institute of Foreign Languages has achieved great-leap-forward development in publishing papers, monographs, projects and awards. The college has established six teaching and research teams, including applied linguistics, Russian, German, Japanese and Korean French, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, pragmatics and British and American literature research. Since 200 1, the faculty and staff of our college have published 3 papers13 in various academic journals at home and abroad, compiled 28 textbooks and reference books, translated 7 books1,and published 3 monographs1. Undertake 36 scientific research and teaching research projects at or above the university level. Scientific research awards, won the provincial and ministerial social science award 1 item, 6 school-level teaching awards, and won the award above the school level1item.

The School of Foreign Languages has made great achievements in inviting world-renowned masters to give lectures, teachers to attend international conferences, and holding international conferences. More than 40 internationally renowned scholars in linguistics, literature, translation and other fields were invited to give lectures, and lectures were jointly held with brother universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Beijing Normal University, which effectively promoted the scientific research and discipline construction of our school. In addition, the International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching sponsored by Foreign Languages Institute 65438-0993 has been held for seven consecutive years, and the biennial Beijing Symposium on Applied Linguistics has also been held for six times. The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics has been successfully held for four times, and the national Russian teaching seminar hosted by the Institute has been successfully held for 12 times.

The School of Foreign Languages always puts talent training at the top of all its work, in which the teaching of foreign languages majors relies on the engineering background of Beihang University, and constantly reforms and innovates, and has always maintained the advantages and characteristics of foreign languages teaching for science and engineering majors in China. The teaching principle of undergraduate major is "based on literature, combining arts and sciences", and it is oriented to cultivate students' foreign language application ability. At the same time, students are required to master certain knowledge of science and technology and foreign trade, and cultivate international general talents with "thick foundation, wide caliber, high quality and innovative spirit". Postgraduate education attaches importance to the systematic teaching of professional knowledge and the cultivation of rigorous research methods, strengthens foreign language practical ability, and cultivates senior foreign language talents with good humanistic quality, independent research ability and pioneering and innovative spirit. After graduation, students can engage in translation, foreign affairs, business, education, editing, teaching, language and literature research and other fields, and have a good competitive advantage in the talent market, and the employment rate is among the best in the school. At the same time, it also has the advantages and potential to enter foreign language majors and other disciplines for further study.

The School of Foreign Languages insists on teacher development as the center and discipline construction as the leader, pays special attention to teaching reform and scientific research, and on the basis of maintaining the development advantages of language disciplines, focuses on building literature and translation disciplines, so as to make them develop in a balanced way, form the advantages of discipline groups, constantly promote the improvement of teaching quality and scientific research level, and promote the development of disciplines.