Topic: Education Goals and Curriculum for English Majors

Starts: 14:30, Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Location: Room 205-1, Teaching Building 1

Speaker: FENG Guangwu

Speaker Profile:

FENG Guangwu is a doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor, member of the Foreign Language Majors Teaching Steering Committee for National Higher Education Institute of Ministry of Education, a Fulbright (Yale University) research scholar, a reviewer for National Social Science Fund, a reviewer for the Fund for Education Abroad, secretary of the Academic Committee of the English School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and a standing director of the China Association for the Philosophy of Language. He once served as the Secretary General of Foreign Language Majors Teaching Steering Committee for National Higher Education Institute of Ministry of Education, and the head of the English proposition group for Guangdong College Entrance Examination.

Professor FENG has successively studied in Sichuan University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, University of Leeds, University of Reading and Yale University. He has earned a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature, a master's degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, a master's degree in Linguistics and English Education, a doctoral degree in Linguistics and a Fulbright Research Scholar's certificate.

Professor FENG is a reviewer of Journal of Linguistics, Language Sciences, Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Modern Foreign Languages, Foreign Languages in China, Contemporary Linguistics and other academic journals. He is also a member of the expert committees of both Cambridge General English test band 5 (KET, PET, FCE, CAE) examination and Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) for primary and secondary school English teachers.

His main research interests include Philosophy of Daily Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, the Reform of English Education and the Research of English Papers in the College Entrance Examination. He has published dozens of papers and works in domestic and foreign academic journals, many of which have been issued and published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Language Sciences and Pragmatics & Cognition among other mainstream international linguistic journals or famous international academic publishing institutions.

Lecture Synopsis:

In January 2018, the first National Standard for Teaching Quality of Foreign Languages and Literatures (hereinafter referred to as the "National Standard") was issued to in China's higher education, marking that the education of foreign language majors in China has entered a new historical period. As the general basis for the establishment, construction and evaluation of foreign language majors in China for some time in the future, the national standard helps us to formulate talent training programs that meet the needs of social development and reflect the orientation and characteristics of the school for different majors. We believe that the key to formulate talent training programs is to find the correct orientation. To this end, we will discuss the needs, problems, influencing factors and methods while building the orientation in the talent training program, so as to enlighten us to add different features for all kinds of foreign language majors.

Teachers and students are welcome to attend this lecture!