公共外语教学部承担全校非英语专业学生的外语教学及英语、俄语专业学生的第二外语教学,包括大学英语教学团队、日语教学团队和1名法语教师。
大学英语教学团队承担全校非英语专业的英语教学工作。大学英语是我校非英语专业学生的公共必修课程,也是我校规模最大、学程最长、学时最多的基础课程。建校以来,大学英语教学团队坚持改革创新,强化教学管理。2016年进行大学英语教学改革,旨在培养本校学生英语学习兴趣、提升学生生活与职场英语沟通能力、提高学生升学及就业的竞争力、适应全球化趋势的人才需求。教学改革取得了显著成绩。大学英语教学采取“课堂教学+自主学习”的教学模式,重点培养学生的英语综合应用和自主学习能力。每学期在各年级、各层级开展形式多样的第二课堂活动,如英语手抄报、短剧配音、话剧表演、英语文化大闯关、英语演讲、英语写作、英语阅读等。大学英语教学团队每年组织指导学生参加“外研社”杯全国英语演讲、写作和阅读比赛,取得良好成绩。
大学英语教师主持国家级项目3项,省级项目4项,参编教材15部,专著4部。本部门教师积极参与各项社会服务工作,如承担东盟会议等各种会议和活动的口、笔译工作。
教学方面,主要承担外国语学院英语专业二外教学、全校小语种日语及辅修学士学位的教学任务。主要课程包括基础日语、高级日语、日语口语、日语听力、日语阅读、日语视听说、第二外语(日语)、小语种日语等。科研方面,在研项目3项,包括国家社科基金项目1项,教育部人文社科项目1项,海南省外语基地专项课题1项;已完成项目3项,均为海南省社科规划项目。近三年,在公开学术期刊发表论文24篇,其中CSSCI来源期刊1篇,CSSCI扩展版期刊6篇;北大中文核心期刊6篇。
Department of Foreign LanguagesTeaching
The Department of Foreign LanguagesTeaching undertakes the foreign languages teaching for non-English major students and the second foreign language teaching for English and Russian major students. The department consists of College English Teaching Team, Japanese Teaching Team and one French teacher.
College English Teaching Team undertakes the English teaching work of all non-English majors in USY. As a common compulsory course, College English has the largest scale of students as well as the most class hours, lasting for four semesters. Since the establishment of USY, College English Teaching Team has been insisting on teaching reforming and innovating and strengthening teaching management. In 2016, the Team carried out a teaching reform, in order to cultivate students’ interests in English learning, to improve students’ English communication skills in life and work, to enhance students’ competitiveness for further education and job hunt and to meet talent demands in the tendency of globalization. Remarkable achievements have been made in this teaching reform. The teaching mode is “classroom teaching + autonomous learning”, with the focus on the development of students’ English comprehensive skills and self-learning ability. Various extracurricular activities are conducted in different grades and levels in each semester, such as “Hand-written English Newspaper Design Contest”, “Movie Dubbing Contest”, “Drama Performance”, “English Cultural Knowledge Contest”, “English Speech Contest”, “English Writing Contest”, “English Reading Contest”, etc. What’s more,under the guidance, students participate in the “FLTRP Cup” National English Speech Contest, National English Writing Contest and National English Reading Contest every year. Many of them win awards.
Teachers in the Team are hosting 3 National Projects and 4 Provincial Projects. They have been involved in compiling 15 teaching books. Four teachers published 4 academic books. Moreover, teachers positively involve themselves in social services like undertaking written translation and interpretation work.
In terms of teaching, this team mainly undertakes the teaching of Japanese for English majors, for students of non-English majors with Japanese as the second language, as well as for students Minoring in Japanese. The main courses include basic Japanese, advanced Japanese, spoken Japanese, Japanese listening, Japanese reading, Japanese audio-visual speaking, the second foreign language (Japanese), etc. In terms of scientific research, three projects are carried out, including one Project of National Social Science Fund, one Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education, and one Specific Project of Hainan Foreign Language Base. Another 3 social science planning projects of Hainan Province have been finished. In the past three years, 24 papers have been published in public academic journals, including one in CSSCI source journal, six in CSSCI extended edition journal and six in the Core Journal of China.