The School of Foreign Languages of Huazhong Normal University, formerly known as the English Department of Huazhong University, was founded in 1924. After nearly a hundred years of struggle, the Foreign Languages Institute has formed a complete teaching system integrating undergraduate, master and doctoral education.
At present, there are 7 teaching units, including English Department, Russian Department, Japanese Department, French Department, Korean Department, Spanish Department and Foreign Languages Department. There are 10 research institutions such as British Literature Research Center, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Research Center, Translation and Communication Research Center, Foreign Language Teacher Education Research Center, Hubei Culture Overseas Communication Research Center, China Rural Foreign Language Education Research Center, Japanese Culture Research Institute, Korean Culture Research Institute, Russian Idiom Research Institute and College English Teaching Research Center.