UESTC

SFL

School of Foreign Languages

UESTC

Introduction

Education and Program

International Exchange and Cooperation

Discipline Construction and Academic Research

General Survey

General Survey

School of Foreign Languages came out in 2001.

It composes of English Department, Japanese

Department and College English Department,

along with research centers and service organs.

Languages provided in teaching courses include

English, Japanese, French, Russian, German and

Italian.

Development of Department

Initiated as Foreign

Languages

Teaching Section

1956 Progrmmes for master’s

degree in Foreign

Linguistics and Applied

Linguistics

1996

Founded the Department

of Foreign Languages

1984

Started to recruit undergraduate

English majors

1973

Development Course

Started to recruit

undergraduate for

Japanese Language

1997

Programmes for MTI

2010

2001

Form the School of Foreign

Languages

Programmes for master’s

degree of English

Language and Literature

2006

The School has a highly qualified faculty totaling 122members,

among them, 6 professors, 33 associate professors, 77 lecturers,

and 6 teaching assistants.

Prof. A. Prof. Lecturers TA

5%

24%

67%

4%

Teaching Faculty

Professors

Among all the faculty members, 21 have acquired Ph.

D already, occupying 17% of total percentage, of which

6 persons got their Ph. D in USA and UK, and 12

doctorate candidates, occupying 10%, and those with

master’s degree are 72, occupying 59% of the whole

body.

5%

24%

67%

4%

Faculty

Well-facilitated teaching and research

conditions

Audio-visual studio, language lab, multi-media lab, computer & network open lab,

digitalized self-study center

Audio and video library

Department library with more than 20000 books covering languages of Chinese,

English and Japanese

One booth for simultaneous interpretation training lab with 42 seats

An Embedded Digital Translation Lab under construction

More than 32 academic journals of foreign languages covering English,

Japanese and other languages except a large quantity of Chinese journals

Programs for Degrees and Diplomas

Undergraduate Level (A Bachelor's Degree ): English and

Japanese, 4 years of college study.

For the English majors, 4 orientations: English Literature,

Commercial English and Sci-Tech English.

For the Japanese majors, Japanese Literature and Language .

Postgraduate Level (A Master's Degree) :

English Literature and Language

Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

MTI ( Master of Translation and Interpreting)

The former two cover fields of English and American Literature,

Literary Theory, Translation Studies, Theoretical Linguistics,

Language Teaching, Testing, Language and Digitalized

Education and so on.

The latter aims to prepare students to work as professional

translators, terminologists and, latterly, project managers,

specialising in the translation of economics/business and

scientific/technical texts.

Training effect

The School lays great emphasis upon students’ comprehensive qualities,

attaching great importance to optimizing the teaching staff through the

improvement of teachers’ professionalism and the coordinated development of

both teaching and researches and the combination of self-study and tutorship,

the School witnesses an entire advancement in education quality.

employment

Reach a rate as

high as 98%,

with 89.3%

entering IT

enterprises. Recruitment site

TEST FOR

ENGLISH MAJORS

GRADE FOUR into

the renowned

institutes of higher

education. Let's Flying

Honors And Awards by

Students

Students shine brightly in kinds of national and regional foreign

languages tournaments.

In National English Debate Contest, they have won awards for the

excellence of the nation.

In the Southwest China’s top grade and the excellent organization job

for three consecutive times.

Many times in National Undergraduate’s English contest, they come

back with awards of top and first grade.

Teaching

Innovation

Process

Evaluation

Test

and Analysis

Self-learning System and Website

Textbook

and

Courseware Teaching

Platform

Teaching Platform and System

In harmony with UESTC’s dominant position in electronic science and

technology, a comprehensive system of language teaching has been

established to guarantee that students have qualified language ability and

cross cultural communication. This system involves the whole process of

teaching and learning from teaching, test, textbook/courseware, self-learning,

process evaluation to self-study” mode.

Achievements in Language

Teaching

National Second Award for College English Teaching in 2005.

“Comprehensive

English” was

established as

Provincial quality

course in 2007.

“Listening and

Speaking” was

established as

Provincial quality

course in 2008.

Second Prize for

College English

Teaching by Sichuan

Province in 2008.

Achievements in Language

Teaching

First Prize for College English by Sichuan Province in 2009.

“College English”

was established

as the national

quality course in

2009.

“English

Literature” was

established as the

provincial quality

course in 2009.

New Perspective

Postgraduate

English was listed

as national

excellent textbook

in 2008.

Textbook Publication

In recent five years, faculty members have published more than 50

textbooks and dictionaries of various kinds, among which, Experiencing

English Serial and their related courseware have been issued over 1200,000

sets and enjoyed high acclaims by their popular use in more than 300

institutes of higher education.

Discipline

Construction

The program

for TCSL Insistence on

characteristic

education

tthe undergraduate

education

the doctorate

program of

English literature

and languages

Discipline Construction

School lays great emphasis on the discipline construction , taking full account of the cultivation of

specialists in languages, linguistics , literature and translation , promoting faculty to develop both in

teaching and academic research. In the next three years, school is striving for a qualification to offer

doctorate programmes in English literature, linguistics and translation studies .

Discipline Construction

In the past few years , School has held successfully forums such as

Shakespeare and English Literature, Applied Linguistics & Reading and

Writing Papers, Annual National Conference for Foreign Language Magazines

of 2009. Meanwhile, the School has financed 36 faculty members to attend

international conferences and 51 to attend national and regional ones.

Academic Research

Academic

Research

Teaching Discipline

Construction

The School adheres to the people-oriented attitude and encourage teachers for

academic development and academic innovation. In the favorable atmosphere of active

participation and academic pursuit, the School has formed a trinity of discipline

construction. Teaching and Academic researches. In recent years, school has witnessed

a sharp increase in successfully applying for and accomplishing at least 20 projects

from national planning bureau, educational ministry of PRC to Sichuan Provincial

Government, and many high qualified papers published in academic journals. In general ,

The integration of research-based teaching, academic research and project-oriented

research has come into being.

Academic Research

Linguistics Research

Center

Translation Research

Center

Propagation Research

Center

(Under Construction)

Chinese and Foreign

Cultural Communication

Research Center (Under Construction)

Foreign Language

Education

Research Center

Foreign Literature

Research Center

English Language

and Literature

Applied Linguistics

Teaching Education and academic education are taken as principal. In

recent years, school has built quite a few research centers or teams , centering

on English language, literature and applied linguistics.

Part of Published Treatises in 2008~2010

1. On ERP experimental research of sentence processing, Foreign Language Education 2009

（3）pp. 20-23.

2. The Duchess of Malfi in the Context of Early Modern English Anti-Catholicism, Foreign

Literature Review 2008(5)

3. “On Translation’s Existential Turn and Its Implication”, Journal of Sichuan International

Studies University, 2008(4)

4. Interpreting skills training based on interpretation tests, Foreign Language Education 2008

5. The other side of the coin- some problems that exist in China's distance education, Social

Science Study 2008(8)

6. Scientific Research Monthly: Considerations in China's enrollment expansion policy in

universities- a failure of a success?, Hong Kong Press Publisher Ltd. educational Science and

Technology Publisher USA, Volume 7,May 2008

7. Oral Language Assessment in Chinese University Context, The 15th World Congress of

Applied Linguistics， Germany, 24-29, August 2008

Part of Published Treatises in 2008~2010

8. “Translation: An Existence of Betwenness”, Foreign language and Literature, 2009(6)

9. Interactive Teaching Strategy and Classroom Activity Designs, The 5th Canada-China TCSL

Conference (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language)

10. An ERP study of online non-native homonym processing in sentence context, The 2nd IEEE

Workshop on Communication among Neuroscience, Cognition & Information Techonology

(CNCI2010)

11. “On Quine’s Indeterminacy of Translation and Its Ontological Rock-bottom”, Foreign

Language Education, 2010(5)

12. Symbolic Writing in Hunger by Chinese American Female Writer Lan Samantha

Chang(2010.08), The Ninth Session of Chinese Symposium & International Conference on

Comparative Literature

13. Self-Writing by Chinese North-American New Generation Female Writers(2010.10) ,

"Literature and Form"-International Conference & The Tenth Session of Symposim on Chinese

Literary Theory

14. Benjamin as a Parable——Reinterpretation of Benjamin’s Translation Theory: from the

Perspective of Cultural Strategy (CD ed.), 18th FIT World Congress, Shanghai

Part of Published Books in 2008~2010

1. Selected Readings from British and American Press, Chongqing University Press,

Chongqing P. R. China, 2008.

2. British Literature and Culture, press of Renmin University of China, 2009

3. IT Matters (Student Book), Shanghai foreign language education press, 2008

4. IT Matters (Teacher's Book), Shanghai foreign language education press, 2008

5. Courseware of Channel your English: upper-intermediate, Higher Eduation Press,

2008

6. Translation and What It Could Be, Sichuan People’s Publishing House , 2009

7. The Dimension View of Metalanguage and its Philosophical Stand, Sichuan University

Press, 2010

Academic Research Projects

In recent years, the School has witness a rapid increase in projects application and approval and achieved a historic breakthrough.

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Projects

Projects abovethe Provincialand MinistryLevel

Part of Academic Research Projects in 2008~2010

1. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese News Discourse --a perspective

of Cognitive Narratology, Department of Education Ministry, 2010.11

2. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese News Discourse --a perspective

of Cognitive Narratology, Research Center of Foreign Languages and Literature

in Sichuan, 2010.6

3. Project-research-based Intercultural Teaching Mode of College English,

Sichuan Foreign Lanuage and Culture Research Center, Shanghai Foreign

Language Education Press

4. Study on contemporary Irish drama, Ministry of Education of China

5. Study of 20century Irish drama, Si Chuan Province

Part of Academic Research Projects in 2008~2010

6. Lipo cross Time and Space-Ancient, Modern and Western, Research Center

on Lipo Culture of Sichuan Educational Ministry

7. A Research and Design on Campus Net-based Adaptive English Testing,

Education Department of Sichuan

8. A Study on National Matriculation English Test of Sichuan Province against

the backdrop of High School Curriculum Reform, planning office of Philosophy

and Social Science of Sichuan, 2009

9. A Study on Translation Ethics, Foreign Language & Literature Study Center of

Sichuan

10. A Study of Stuart Hall's cultural Theory, planning office of Philosophy and

Social Science of China, 2009

11. A Study of Birmingham School's "Cultural Marxism", Ministry of Education of

China, 2009

International Exchange and Cooperation

• Of the entire faculty, 65% have experience of studying abroad as students or

visiting scholars, they are seen on the campus of Cambridge University of the

UK, Harvard University, Berkeley of California University and Stanford

University of the USA, and so on.

Britain

America

Japan Russian

Australia

America

France

Britain

Students’ Exchange and Volunteer Service

• In accordance with the School’s development scheme, more and more

efforts have been thrown into the construction of platform for students’

foreign exchange. In recent years, students of 17 person-trips for

studying and volunteer services at the United States, Japan, Singapore

and so on have been arranged. Their impressive demonstrations on

occasion of World Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, IEEE

International Forum and so on have been widely acclaimed.

Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language

Teaching Program

• Started in 1999, with students from US, Canada, Australia, France, Korea, Nigeria, etc.

• Features: Diverse range of Chinese language and culture courses Small-size class, individualized teaching Home-stay experience with Chinese families Field trip to local historical sites and tourist resorts Class Options – Beginning Level, Intermediate Level, and Advanced Level.

• Long Term Program （1 / 2-year） Short Term Program （1 semester, 1 / 2-month, flexible） Culture Study （custom-oriented）

Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language

Teaching Program

• Core Courses: Comprehensive Chinese, Chinese Listening and Speaking, Chinese Reading, Chinese Writing, Media Chinese

• Optional Courses: Newspaper and Magazine Reading, News Listening, Reading of Ancient Chinese Works, Modern Chinese Grammar, English to Chinese Translation, Topics on China Today

• Cultural Courses: Introduction to Chinese Culture, Taiji Quan, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Painting Appreciation, Chinese Music and Pop Songs, Chinese Folk Dancing, Chinese Cooking, Chinese Movie and TV Plays

Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language

Teaching Program

• EXCURSION

• City Tours

Marquis Wu Museum - Three Kingdoms Museum

Du Fu Thatch Cottage - Tang Dynasty Poet Du Fu's Residence

Jinsha Relics Museum

Panda Research Center

• Field Trips

Leshan Giant Buddha

Mountain E’mei

Dujiangyan Irrigation System

Jiuzhaigou National Park

Sanxingdui Ancient City

Trips to Occasional Cultural Events

UESTC

SFL

Thank You!