The School of Foreign Languages of Taishan University is one of the earliest departments in our college to offer undergraduate majors, and began to recruit undergraduate majors in 2002. At present, there are undergraduate English (normal and non-normal), college English (normal and non-normal), Japanese undergraduate and other majors. There are 37 full-time teachers, including 3 professors, 9 associate professors 1 1 person and 9 lecturers. Among the teachers, there are 12 masters, and 6 are studying for masters. In addition, foreign language experts have been hired for a long time, forming a dynamic teaching team with young and middle-aged people as the main body, reasonable age, education and professional title structure, dedication, unity and cooperation.
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of academic qualifications and the improvement of professional title structure, teachers' teaching ability and scientific research level have been continuously improved, with increasingly rich scientific research achievements and strong academic atmosphere. A number of key teachers have emerged, such as Li Meiying, Zhang Zhenyu, Su Bing, Lu Yun, Cyndi Luo, Xia Ping, Yuan Xinhua, Yang Chong and Fan Lili.
On the basis of the continuous improvement of scientific research level, the backbone teachers in our department have gradually condensed several major disciplines, namely: 1. Second language acquisition; 2. Translation theory and practice; 3. Computer-assisted foreign language teaching; 4. Cross-cultural communication.
In order to broaden students' horizons and create a good learning atmosphere, the Institute of Foreign Languages often invites famous experts and scholars to give lectures. In order to create a good foreign language learning environment for students, the Foreign Languages Institute has continuously improved its teaching resources and facilities, and has advanced teaching facilities such as a fully digital multimedia network language laboratory, a general language laboratory, a multimedia classroom, a foreign language reference room and a language teaching broadcasting station. Among them, the reference room of Foreign Languages College has more than 50,000 books, which greatly enriches the extracurricular reading needs of students of Foreign Languages College and rapidly improves their reading ability.
On the basis of many years of teaching in normal universities, with the joint efforts of department leaders and all teachers, our department has established a scientific and reasonable teacher education curriculum system. At the same time, in order to further broaden the employment direction of students and meet the current social employment needs, we have also set up a series of business English courses, aiming at cultivating compound talents who are proficient in foreign languages and have certain business knowledge, and enhancing students' employment competitiveness.