(Employer Jobs) QiongTai Normal University
Job Description
School of Foreign Languages（School of International Education）
The School of Foreign Languages (SFL) of QiongTai Normal University (QTNU) consists of four sub-divisions, namely, English Department, Applied Linguistics Department, Public Foreign Languages Teaching Department, and International Education Department. English Department and Applied Linguistics Department are mainly responsible for educating and teaching undergraduate English majors; Public Foreign Languages Teaching Department mainly takes responsibilities for the teaching of English language to the whole number of undergraduates of all other schools; International Education Department is in charge of teaching and administration for international students. The SFL presently offers Bachelor of Arts degree program, namely BA in English Language and Literature, and Associate Bachelor in Russian.
The SFL has a total number of 68 faculty members, 58 of them being professional teachers, two of them being professors, two of them being distinguished professors, nine of them being associate professors. As far as academic degree is concerned, three of them are doctors and five of them are would-be (in-study) doctor. Of these, three are foreign teachers. As for the number of students, there are about 965 students studying in this School.
The SFL is equipped with 12 multi-media audio-video classrooms and 4 web-assisted self-access learning centers. Besides, 14 off-campus internship and training bases within Hainan Province have been established to meet the fundamental needs of students for learning, training and research.
Teachers in SFL have gained excellent achievements in various national and provincial contests, such as SFLEP National Foreign Language Teaching Contest, FLTRP Star Teacher Contest, Higher Education Teaching Innovation Competition of Hainan Province and Teaching Contest for young teachers of Hainan Province.
Students from the Department of English have also repeatedly made remarkable achievements in various national tests and contests, such as “FLTRP • Guocai Cup” National English Speech, Reading, Writing and Translation Contest, “SFLEP Vocab Go Cup”National English Vocabulary Contest.
The SFL has achieved remarkable progress in building the Discipline of English: Curriculum and Teaching Theory of Elementary School English has been listed in the third batch of provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses; Integrated English Course has been approved as “Three Entries” Model Course (Nurturing) Project of Hainan Province. 6 school-level first-class undergraduate courses, including Integrated English Course and Extensive Reading, 3 school-level model courses with ideological and political education and 1 high-quality open online course have been offered. In 2022, English Major has been integrated in The Synergized Quality Improvement Program in Teacher Education, and then counterpart relations with Shaanxi Normal University and Hainan Normal University have been established. In 2023, Foreign Languages and Literature has become the Key (Nurturing) Discipline in QTNU.
Since its upgrading to undergraduate education，the SFL has trained a large number of outstanding foreign language professional teachers for local areas. Undergraduates from the School are mainly engaged in English teaching positions of primary and secondary schools. With the good basic skill of English, flexible ability and preparedness for hard work，our graduates are well received by employers.
