At present, the School of Foreign Languages has four undergraduate majors (directions): English (normal), business English, Japanese and English (translation), with 65,438 full-time undergraduates+0,432. Over the past 30 years, the Institute of Foreign Languages has trained 4,530 teachers and foreign language talents, making positive contributions to the prosperity and development of the motherland.
The School of Foreign Languages actively promotes the experiential student work mode. This model constructs a professional practice network from campus to off-campus and from campus to community by creating an internship field for students on campus and developing a practice community outside campus, which provides a learning platform for students to participate in practice and experience in situations, thus extending and strengthening the effect of classroom teaching.
Over the years, Foreign Languages Institute has been carrying out the "3+ 1" applied talent training mode based on the construction of diversified knowledge and practical ability, striving to create the brand and characteristics of talent training. Graduates win social recognition with high comprehensive quality. Every year, a number of students are admitted to graduate schools at home and abroad, and the employment rate of graduates has reached or approached 100% year after year. Every year, each major attracts a large number of candidates from inside and outside the province to fill in their volunteers, forming a benign cycle of running schools.
The School of Foreign Languages has the most complete English language and literature discipline among similar universities in China. At present, the Institute of Foreign Languages has set up Japanese majors and all English majors officially registered by the Ministry of Education: English (normal) majors, business English majors and translation majors, with nearly 100 full-time teachers.
In running a school, the School of Foreign Languages pays attention to quiet thinking, practical action, carries forward the interdisciplinary characteristics, highlights the process concept of SCTPP (student-centered, computer-aided, task-based demonstration, practice and production) in course teaching, implements the experience-oriented student work mode, and actively cultivates intelligent foreign language personality. Over the past 30 years, the School of Foreign Languages has trained nearly 4,000 teachers and foreign language talents for Guangdong, especially for western Guangdong, and they have become the backbone of basic education in western Guangdong.
Adhering to the spirit of Leiyang culture, the School of Foreign Languages faces basic education and grass roots, and makes full use of its talent resources, advantages and characteristics. This paper puts forward the development ideas based on the construction of teachers, the breakthrough of curriculum reform, the main line of teacher education, the focus of professional practice and the promotion of teaching by scientific research. The Youth League Committee of Foreign Languages Institute is the grass-roots organization of the Communist Youth League of China in our college. It works under the leadership of schools, college party committees and superior youth league committees. Its main responsibilities are:
1, combined with the work of the party and government centers in schools and colleges, make the work plan for each semester. Organize and carry out all kinds of educational practice activities suitable for the characteristics of young students in Foreign Languages Institute, do a good job in the ideological construction of the Youth League, and cooperate with the Student Affairs Department to do a good job in the ideological and political work of young students and the construction of study style and school spirit; Run the "Opinions" and other league publications, and carry out an investigation on the ideological status, characteristics and innovation of league members.
2, pays special attention to the construction of league organizations, is responsible for organizing and recommending outstanding league members as the party's development object, and cooperate with the party committee organization department to do a good job in student party building. Establish and improve the management system and work system of various league organizations, and strengthen the inspection and guidance of the work of grassroots league organizations; Do a good job in organizing training for cadres of the college league and leaving the league for over-age members; Responsible for the management of college members and the education and punishment of illegal members.
3. Organize social practice activities such as summer social investigation, voluntary service, teaching assistance, culture and technology, and health "going to the countryside"; Do a good job in students' second classroom activities and community management.
4. Run scientific and technological innovation activities such as "Challenge Cup" college students' extracurricular academic research works competition, hold various kinds of students' academic research activities on a regular basis, cooperate with the school Youth League Committee to organize "academic life and students' academic report" and other activities, make efforts to promote the formation of college students' scientific literacy and scientific and technological awareness, and create a good academic atmosphere for campus scientific research.
5. Actively carry out campus cultural activities, cooperate with the school to seriously organize the annual campus culture and art festival, community culture festival, freshman festival, food festival and other activities, do a good job in the construction of the college culture and art troupe, cultivate the artistic quality of students in our college, improve the artistic appreciation level of youth members, and strive to promote the quality development of college students.
6. Guide and help students' associations, young volunteers' associations and other student organizations to carry out their work, do a good job in the organization and management of the Youth League Committee and the training of student cadres, and be responsible for the selection, training, management and assessment of school-level student cadres. Investigation and study, do a good job in discovering, cultivating and commending, publicizing and popularizing all kinds of advanced models among youth league members.
7. Care about the physical and mental health of young students, represent and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of young people, and timely reflect the opinions and demands of students in our college in their study, life and work to relevant departments.
8. Responsible for the collection, use and management of tour fees and the management and use of student activity funds.
9, do other work assigned by the school, college party committee and the superior youth league committee. Presidium is the core leading unit of the whole student union. Its main responsibility is to assist college leaders and counselors to carry out various student work smoothly and handle the daily affairs of the student union; Mainly responsible for the decision-making, distribution, supervision, inspection and coordination of the overall work of the student union; It shoulders the heavy responsibility of further consolidating the internal cohesion of the student union, enhancing the sense of belonging of cadres and promoting the harmonious development of the student union. Therefore, it is also one of the long-term tasks of the presidium to understand the psychological dynamics of cadres in time and give effective guidance.
The office is the backbone of the student union, the right-hand man of the presidium and counselors, and an important bridge for information transmission and communication between colleges and classes. The office consists of a secretary group and a public relations group. The daily work of the secretary group is mainly to carry out class management, such as class attendance, holding the regular meeting of the monitor, collecting and sorting out various materials, etc. The core of the public relations team is to communicate with various external businessmen and obtain activity funds for various activities held by our hospital. The characteristic activities of the office include collective evaluation of advanced classes, evaluation of excellent class activities, evaluation of excellent monitor and class seminars.
As a pioneer in creating a good learning atmosphere in the whole school, the learning department is committed to carrying out a series of large-scale professional learning activities that reflect the brand characteristics of the Foreign Languages Institute, such as the English recitation contest for freshmen, the English comprehensive skills contest and the English debate contest. In addition, the learning department of our college also actively assists the learning department to successfully carry out various large-scale activities, such as bilingual simulated classroom competitions and Chinese debate competitions. Routine work: English corner activities, class characteristic learning activities.
As one of the important departments of the Students' Union, the Life Department actively creates a comfortable and elegant learning and living environment for students in the spirit of "pioneering, innovating and living happily". Its daily work: fund management of college activities, one-minute cleaning during recess, volunteer duty of lost and found transfer station, internal inspection of canteen, call for papers for "dining window" and so on. Featured activities: large-scale flea market activities for girls' day, handwritten newspaper making contest, three-stage greeting card design contest, dormitory lifestyle exhibition, and experience exchange meeting of Haida University.
Accommodation department is a department that focuses on dormitory life culture and serves the majority of students with the aim of "from classmates to classmates". Work objectives: wholeheartedly create a clean, beautiful and comfortable learning and living environment for students; Main functions: implement the management system of supervision dormitory, publicize the knowledge of dormitory safety, and ensure the personal and property safety of students; Cultural activities of characteristic dormitory: freshman dormitory design contest, song-giving PK contest, dormitory life style exhibition, greeting card design contest, civilized dormitory evaluation activity, etc.
The Women's Department is one of the most dynamic departments in the Student Union. Work purpose: Pay attention to women's dribs and drabs, and improve girls' own temperament and comprehensive quality; Routine work: etiquette work, organizing cheerleading activities; Various entertainment activities representing the characteristics of female students in Foreign Languages Institute: image design competition, host competition, business English introduction competition, series of activities on Girls' Day, special lectures on women's health, etc.
The Rights and Interests Department is a student organization that wholeheartedly safeguards students' rights and interests, takes "students-oriented" as its working purpose, and does practical things and good things for students. Daily work: visit the school administration building, property management office, assets office and other departments every week to reflect students' opinions and demands to relevant school leaders and departments in a timely manner; Popularize the knowledge of rights protection and arouse the awareness of independent rights protection; Special activities: student reception day, large-scale drama competition for rights protection, symposium on "I face to face with hospital leaders", cartoon competition for rights protection, etc.
The sports department is a department full of infinite vitality and challenges. Starting from strengthening students' physique and enriching college life, we are committed to developing college physical education. Routine work: daily supervise morning exercises, organize students of our college to participate in various school-level sports competitions, such as: school track and field sports meeting, "Three Good Cups" basketball match, "Candlelight Cup" football match, "Three Good Cups" volleyball match, aerobics competition, etc. Special activities: "Three-person Basketball Match" and "Farewell Cup" volleyball match between classes.
The logistics department is a department that serves poor students wholeheartedly, and is responsible for student loans and work-study programs. Student loan: collect and manage the relevant information of national student loan in our college, and do a good job of information feedback of student loan projects; Hold honesty education activities with the theme of "sowing the seeds of honesty and repaying gratitude". Work-study program: openly and fairly recommend work-study program personnel; Determine the funding targets (such as national scholarships, breakfast subsidies in the morning, temporary food subsidies, etc.). ) in our hospital; Skills training for poor students: organize students from our college to participate in tutor training.