Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Foreign Language and Translation is a provincial-level institution of higher learning approved by the People's Government of Hebei Province and put on record by the Ministry of Education according to the Standards for the Establishment of Higher Vocational Schools (Provisional). It is the only institution of higher learning in Hebei Province and the second one in the north of the Yellow River with the aim of training foreign language translators at all levels. It has the qualification to independently issue diplomas from national institutions of higher learning. For the national enrollment, the enrollment plan is included in the enrollment plan of national colleges and universities, and the enrollment target is high school graduates who take the national college entrance examination.
1. The College is located in the southwest university district of Hebei Province, where tens of thousands of students gather.
The College is located at No.29, Huifeng West Road, Hongqi South Street, Shijiazhuang City. It is adjacent to 12 universities such as Hebei Normal University and Hebei University of Economics and Business. Tens of thousands of students gather here, and famous schools, teachers and teachers gather here, which has a superior learning and amateur cultural life environment. The college covers an area of 431 mu, of which the first-phase construction area is 1.6 million square meters, and the second-phase project will be started in October 2116, with a construction area of 1.6 million square meters, a total campus construction area of 1.22 million square meters and a green area of 63%. In 2116, the college will start the second phase of construction, and it is expected that the second phase will be completed in 2118, so that the capacity of the college will reach 12,111.
2. Unique Specialty Setting
In order to make our college become a famous foreign language translation college in China at an early date, the main leaders of the Provincial Department of Education put forward the theory of "Three Targets" on the specialty setting of "foreign translation", that is, setting up majors for the market, setting up majors for industries, setting up majors for occupations, setting up multiple majors and enrolling students on a small scale, ensuring the situation that the demand exceeds the supply with small-scale enrollment. In 2115, the Provincial Department of Education approved our college to recruit 34 majors in seven departments of nine major languages for the whole country, namely: (1) English translation department: English-Chinese simultaneous interpretation, business English, scientific text translation and computer-aided English translation. (2) Department of Foreign Language Translation: Japanese-Chinese simultaneous interpretation, Korean-Chinese simultaneous interpretation, business French, business German, business Russian, Arabic translation and Spanish translation. (3) Department of Education: psychological education and counseling, English education, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and preschool bilingual education. (4) Department of Foreign Affairs Services: English nursing, Korean nursing, foreign-related domestic art, English tour guide, Japanese tour guide, Korean tour guide, foreign-related hotel management, foreign language secretary, foreign-related accounting, customs declaration and international freight, project cost, asset evaluation and management, modern logistics management, and TV program production. (5) Flight Attendant Department: English air crew. (6) Computer Department: computer software development and design, computer network design, foreign-related urban landscape design, animation design and production. (7) Department of Basic Education: junior high school starts with a five-year junior college.
3. The college has a first-class faculty.
There are 531 teachers in our college, including 365 full-time teachers, 61 part-time teachers engaged in party and government management, and 111 workers. Full-time teachers account for 69% of the total number of faculty and staff in the hospital. There are 123 professors, accounting for 25% of the total number of teachers; 159 associate professors, accounting for 31% of the total number of teachers; There are 87 teachers with intermediate titles, accounting for 1.6% of the total number of teachers; There are 55 teachers with junior titles, accounting for 11% of the total number of teachers; There are 228 teachers under 35 years old, accounting for 43% of the total number of teachers; There are 248 people aged 36-51, accounting for 47% of the total number of teachers; There are 3 people with doctoral degrees and 128 people with master's degrees, accounting for 24.7% of the total number of teachers. Among the domestic teachers, well-known experts, scholars and academic leaders in and outside the province have been identified. For example, Professor Sun Guirong, a senior Korean teacher, Professor Li Lanxin, director and senior researcher of the Foreign Economic Research Center of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Liu Duotian, director of the Shijiazhuang Foreign Cultural and Educational Cooperation Center, chairman of the Science and Technology Japanese Association, Australian Chinese, former professor Chai Yanchun and Lu Mingzhi, who have been engaged in Sino-Japanese relations research and works for many years, Liu Jiusheng, Lv Manyi, Sun Guolin, Zhang Jiazhen, Wang Baolin, Ma Chunyan, Zhai Jianying, Hao Yuhuan, Wu Mingtong, Sun Haipeng, Cai Jingchen, etc. Among the foreign teachers, nine senior foreign teachers were identified as academic leaders of foreign teachers, including French foreign teacher You Zhenni, German foreign teacher Denise, American foreign teacher Gais, Korean foreign teacher Lanna and Japanese foreign teacher Abe Jiuchang. They brought the excellent style of work and advanced educational concepts and methods at home and abroad into the college, forming an integration advantage and further optimizing the backbone teachers of the college.
All the key foreign language training courses are taught by foreign teachers from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Russia, Germany, South Korea, Japan and other countries who have many years of teaching experience in China, so as to improve the students' listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating abilities. At the same time, ambassadors, counsellors and heads of multinational enterprises in China are invited to teach some courses for students regularly, so as to enlighten and cultivate students' ability to solve practical problems and expand their thinking field by case teaching method. 4. The college has first-class teaching equipment
The college has 21 digital audio-visual language labs (ranking first in colleges and universities in the province), 8 electronic libraries, 12 multimedia classrooms, 8 computer laboratories, 1 2711-square-meter foreign language training room, 5 body art training rooms, 3 housekeeping training rooms, 4 guzheng training rooms, 4 electronic piano training rooms, 1 English nursing laboratory and 1 psychological counseling laboratory. In addition, the college has two sets of transmission equipment for English cable and wireless radio stations, and a TV relay tower that can receive 31 Chinese and foreign TV programs at the same time. The total value of teaching equipment is more than 12 million yuan. At present, the library has a total of 1.5 million printed documents, more than 411 printed Chinese periodicals, 8 electronic libraries, 911,111 Chinese electronic books, 511,111 foreign language electronic books and more than 3,711 Chinese electronic periodicals. At the same time, campus LAN, campus telephone network, campus wireless broadcasting network, campus bilingual TV station (which can receive nine overseas original sound channels such as "British BBC"), multi-functional studio, rehearsal hall and student activity room are fully equipped, and eight broadband internet cafes are open to students all day.
5. Orientation of running a foreign-related ordinary university
Our college is a foreign-related ordinary university officially approved by the Ministry of Education: (1) It has the qualification of independently hiring foreign teachers and can establish a stable team of foreign teachers; (2) It has the qualification of equal exchange with foreign education administrative departments and their approved and recognized regular universities in terms of teacher resources, educational resources and academics. Let the students really be in the campus environment of an international university, and let the students really feel the atmosphere of an international education; (3) We can directly exchange students with regular foreign institutions of higher learning on the basis of mutual recognition of credits, which not only shortens the study time, but also saves a lot of study expenses.
6. Garden campus landscape
Stepping into the main entrance of the college, under the shade, a pedestrian street with a width of 51 meters runs through the north and south of the campus, connecting the teaching area composed of high-standard teaching main buildings and audio-visual library buildings in the south and the living area composed of apartment buildings and dining centers in the north. There is a beautiful European cultural corridor between the two areas with European style. The corridor is paved with shade in the west, integrating a 411-meter runway and a football field. It faces the campus leisure square and park in the east, with cloisters and kiosks and green grass. Morning reading and evening dancing; Very scenic! There are 8 basketball courts, 6 volleyball courts and 11 badminton courts close to the living area.
7. All-English context teaching method
has gradually evolved from "bilingual teaching" at the time of enrollment to "all-foreign language education". No matter classroom teaching, teacher-student communication, classmates' communication, campus broadcasting, campus bilingual TV, classmates' dining, campus shopping and other daily life, foreign languages are all used as the main communication language, which makes the whole campus form a strong foreign language learning environment, and makes the college a "learning English square" in the provincial capital, rapidly improving students' listening.
8. Multi-level education and teaching overpass
Three-year junior college students can take part in the selection examination of junior college students in spring and summer respectively in the year of graduation, and according to the enrollment situation of colleges and universities in that year, they will be promoted to key undergraduate colleges in the province for further study; You can also choose "continuous reading for junior college students" to participate in the undergraduate study of the self-study examination organized by the college, and obtain the undergraduate degree and bachelor's degree in the year after obtaining the diploma of junior college students. After obtaining a bachelor's degree, undergraduates can continue to choose to enter the postgraduate stage and apply for a master's degree.
9. Internship, employment, further education and study abroad
In the next semester of the third academic year, our college recommends qualified students to go abroad for 2-6 months of closed context training; Order education is implemented for some popular majors, and students can be recommended for employment by the college after graduation; You can also choose to study in universities in Singapore, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada and some European countries and regions.
11. Unique talent training mode
The talent training mode of "Chinese background+foreign language expertise+professional knowledge+public skills" is adopted. In the first academic year, all the intensive English training courses are offered; In the second and third academic years, specialized courses and vocational skills courses are offered respectively, and at the same time, three public skills courses of "automobile driving, microcomputer application and Chinese writing" are added. More than 51% of students can approach the TOEFL or IELTS level when they graduate.