shijiazhuang vocational college of foreign languages

Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Foreign Language Translation in Hebei Province is a provincial-level ordinary 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 Setting Higher Vocational Schools (Provisional). It is the only institution of higher learning in Hebei Province and the second institution in the north of the Yellow River, which aims at training foreign language translators at all levels, and has the qualification to issue diplomas independently by national colleges and universities. 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. College is located in the southwest university area of Hebei Province, and has gathered tens of thousands of students.

The college is located at No.29, Huifeng West Road, Hongqi South Street, Shijiazhuang. Adjacent to Hebei Normal University, Hebei University of Economics and Business and other 12 universities. Tens of thousands of students gather here, famous schools, famous teachers and famous teachers gather here, which has a superior learning and amateur cultural life environment. The college covers an area of 430 mu, of which the first-phase construction area is 6.5438+0.6 million square meters, and the second-phase project will start in June 2006, with a construction area of 60,000 square meters, a total campus construction area of 220,000 square meters and a green area of 63%. In 2006, the college will start the second phase of construction, and it is expected to complete the second phase of the project in 2008, so that the capacity of the college will reach 12000.

2. Unique professional settings

In order to make our college become a well-known 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 goals" for the major of "foreign translation", that is, setting up majors for the market, industry and occupation, enrolling students on a small scale with multiple majors, ensuring the number of students with multiple majors, and ensuring that the small-scale enrollment is in short supply. In 2005, the Provincial Department of Education approved our college to recruit 34 majors from seven departments in nine major languages, namely: (1) English Translation Department: English-Chinese simultaneous interpretation, business English, scientific text translation and computer-aided English translation. (2) Foreign Languages Department: 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 consultation, English education, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and pre-school 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 flight attendant. (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 begins with a five-year junior college.

There are first-class teachers in this college.

There are 530 teachers in our college, including 365 full-time teachers, 60 part-time teachers engaged in party and government management, and 0/00 employees. Full-time teachers account for 69% of the total number of faculty and staff in the hospital. Among them, professors 123, accounting for 25% of the total number of teachers; Associate Professor 159, accounting for 30% of the total number of teachers; There are 87 teachers with intermediate titles, accounting for16% of the total number of teachers; There are 55 teachers with junior titles, accounting for10% 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 36-50, accounting for 47% of the total number of teachers; There are 3 doctors and 28 masters/kloc-0, accounting for 24.7% of the total number of teachers. Among domestic teachers, well-known experts, scholars and academic leaders inside and outside the province have been identified. For example, he is a senior teacher and professor in Korea, director and senior researcher professor of Foreign Economic Research Center of Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, professor Liu Duotian who has been engaged in the research and work of Sino-Japanese relations for many years, director of Shijiazhuang Foreign Cultural and Educational Cooperation Center, chairman of Japanese Association of Science and Technology, Australian Chinese, and former professors of Yanshan University Chai Yanchun, Lu, Liu Jiusheng, Lu, Sun, Zhang, Ma Chunyan, Zhai Jianying, Hao Yuhuan, Wu Mingtong, Sun Haipeng, Cai Jingchen, etc. Among foreign teachers, nine senior foreign teachers have been identified as foreign teachers' disciplines, including French foreign teacher You, German foreign teacher Dennis, American foreign teacher Gass, Korean foreign teacher Lana, Japanese foreign teacher Abe, etc. They have brought excellent work styles and advanced educational concepts and methods at home and abroad into the college, formed an integration advantage, and further optimized the backbone teachers of the college.

All 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 with many years of domestic teaching experience, so as to improve the students' listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation abilities. At the same time, ambassadors, counsellors and heads of multinational enterprises are invited to teach some courses to students regularly, so as to inspire and cultivate students' ability to solve practical problems and expand their thinking fields by case teaching method. The college has first-class teaching equipment.

The college has 20 digital audio-visual language laboratories (ranking first among universities in the province), 8 electronic libraries, 12 multimedia classrooms, 8 computer laboratories, 1 2,700-square-meter foreign language training rooms, 5 body art training rooms, 3 housekeeping training rooms, 4 guzheng training rooms and 4 electronic piano training rooms./kloc-0. In addition, the college also has two sets of transmission equipment for English cable and wireless radio stations, and a TV relay tower that can receive 30 Chinese and foreign TV programs at the same time. The total value of teaching equipment reaches120,000 yuan or more. At present, the library has 6.5438+0.5 million printed documents, more than 400 printed Chinese periodicals, 8 electronic libraries, 900,000 Chinese electronic books, 500,000 foreign electronic books and more than 3,700 Chinese electronic periodicals. At the same time, campus LAN, campus telephone network, campus wireless broadcasting network, campus bilingual TV station (which can receive 9 overseas original sound channels such as "British BBC"), multi-functional studio, rehearsal hall, student activity room and other facilities are complete, and 8 broadband Internet cafes are open to students all day.

5. Orientation of foreign universities.

Our college is an ordinary foreign-related university officially approved by the Ministry of Education: (1) It has the qualification of hiring foreign teachers independently and can establish a stable foreign teacher team; (2) Have the qualification of equal communication with foreign educational administrative departments and their approved regular universities in terms of teacher resources, educational resources, academics, etc., so that students can truly be in the campus environment of international universities. Let students truly feel the atmosphere of international education; (3) On the basis of mutual recognition of credits, we can directly exchange students with foreign regular institutions of higher learning, 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 50 meters runs through the north and south of the campus, connecting the teaching area consisting of the high-standard teaching main building and the audio-visual library building in the south and the living area consisting of apartment buildings and dining centers in the north. There is a beautiful European cultural corridor between the two regions, which has a European style. The corridor is paved by the shade of trees in the west, and it is a large-scale sports ground integrating a 400-meter runway and a football field. Facing the campus leisure square and park in the east, there are cloisters and pavilions, and the grass is lush. Morning reading and evening dancing; Very scenic! There are 8 basketball courts, 6 volleyball courts and 10 badminton courts near the living area.

7. All-English Context Teaching Method

From "bilingual teaching" to "all-foreign-language education" when enrolling students, taking foreign languages as the main communication language in daily life, such as classroom teaching, teacher-student communication, classmate communication, campus broadcasting, campus bilingual TV, classmate dining, campus shopping, etc., the whole campus has formed a strong foreign language learning environment, making the college a "learning English square" in the provincial capital, and rapidly improving students' listening and speaking ability.

8. Multi-level education and teaching overpass

Three-year junior college students can participate in the spring and summer junior college students' selection examinations 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 self-taught undergraduate study organized by the college, and obtain undergraduate education and bachelor's degree in the same year after obtaining the diploma for 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, continuing 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; Some popular majors implement order education, 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.

10, a unique talent training model

Adopt the talent training mode of "Chinese background+foreign language expertise+professional knowledge+public skills". In the first academic year, all intensive English training courses will be 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 50% of students can approach TOEFL or IELTS level when they graduate.