Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Foreign Language and Translation, what is it like?

Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Foreign Language and Translation (石家庄外语翻译职业学院-Shijiazhuang Vocational College of Foreign Language and Translation) is a provincial ordinary college of higher education approved by the People's Government of Hebei Province and filed with the Ministry of Education according to the Ministry of Education's "Standards for the Establishment of Vocational Schools of Higher Learning" (Provisional). It is the only one in Hebei Province and the second one in the north of the Yellow River to cultivate all kinds of foreign language and translation talents at all levels for the purpose of running the school, and has the qualification of independently issuing the academic diploma of the national ordinary colleges and universities. It is the only one in Hebei Province and the second one in the north of the Yellow River to train foreign language interpreters at all levels and in all categories for the purpose of higher education, and is qualified to independently issue national general college diplomas.

1, the college is located in tens of thousands of students gathered in the capital of Hebei Province, southwest of the college district

The college is located in Shijiazhuang City, Hongqi South Street, Huifeng West Road No. 29, and Hebei Normal University, Hebei University of Economics and Trade and other 12 colleges and universities adjacent to the tens of thousands of students gathered, the famous schools, teachers, teachers converge here, with a superior environment for learning and amateur cultural life in the university. The college covers an area of 430 acres, of which the first phase of the construction area of 160,000 square meters, the second phase of the project will be started in October 2006, the construction area of 60,000 square meters, the campus has a total floor area of 220,000 square meters, green area of 63%. 2006, the college will start the second phase of the project is expected to be completed by the end of the second phase of the construction in 2008, so that the capacity of the college to reach 12,000 people.

2. Unique Professional Setting

In order to make the college become a famous foreign language translation college in China, the main leader of the provincial education department put forward the theory of "Three Targets" on the professional setting of the college, i.e.: Setting up majors for the market, setting up majors for the industry, setting up majors for the industry, setting up majors for the market, setting up majors for the industry, setting up majors for the industry, and setting up majors for the industry. In 2005, the Provincial Department of Education approved the college to recruit 34 majors in seven departments of nine languages for the whole country, i.e.: (1) English Translation Department: English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation, Business English, Scientific and Technological Text Translation, and Computer-Assisted English Translation. English Translation (2) Department of Foreign Language Translation: Japanese-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation, Korean-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation, French for Business, German for Business, Russian for Business, Arabic Translation, Spanish Translation. (3) Department of Education: Psychological Education and Counseling, English Education, Chinese Language Education for Foreigners, Preschool Bilingual Education. (4) Department of Foreign Service: English Nursing, Korean Nursing, Foreign Domestic Arts, English Tourist Guide, Japanese Tourist Guide, Korean Tourist Guide, Foreign Hotel Management, Foreign Language Secretary, Foreign Accounting, Customs Brokerage and International Freight Forwarding, Engineering Costing, Asset Appraisal and Management, Modernized Logistic Management, Television Program Production. (5) Department of Air Crew: English Air Crew. (6) Department of Computer Science: computer software development and design, computer network design, foreign-related urban landscape design, animation design and production. (7) Department of Basic Education: five-year college from junior high school.

3, the college has a first-class faculty

Our existing teachers 530 people, including 365 full-time teachers, 60 part-time teachers engaged in party and government management, 100 staff, full-time teachers accounted for 69% of the total number of faculty members. Among them, 123 are professors, accounting for 25% of the total number of teachers; 159 are associate professors, accounting for 30% of the total number of teachers; 87 are teachers with intermediate titles, accounting for 16% of the total number of teachers; 55 are teachers with junior titles, accounting for 10% of the total number of teachers; there are 228 teachers under the age of 35, accounting for 43% of the total number of teachers; 248 are aged between 36-50, accounting for 47% of the total number of teachers; there are teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 43% of the total number of teachers; and there are teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 47% of the total number of teachers. The number of teachers under 35 years old is 228, accounting for 43% of the total number of teachers; the number of teachers between 36 and 50 years old is 248, accounting for 47% of the total number of teachers; there are 3 teachers with doctoral degree and 128 teachers with master's degree, accounting for 24.7% of the total number of teachers. Professor Liu Dotian, director of Foreign Economy Research Center of Institute of Social Science, senior researcher, engaged in the study of Sino-Japanese relations for many years and author of many books, Professor Liu Qiushuan, director of Shijiazhuang Foreign Culture and Education Cooperation Center, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Science and Technology Japanese Language Association, Chai Yanchun, Australian Chinese and former professor of Yanshan University, as well as Lv Mingzhi, Liu Jiusheng, Lv Manyi, Sun Guolin, Zhang Jiazhen, Wang Baolin, Ma Chunyan, Zhai Jianying, Hao Yuhuan, Wu Mingtong, Sun Haipeng, Cai Jingchen, etc. Among the foreign teachers, 9 senior foreign teachers were identified as academic leaders of foreign teachers such as French teacher You Zhenyi, German teacher Denise, American teacher Gaius, Korean teacher Lanna, Japanese teacher Abe Fangjiu, etc. They put the excellent style and advanced technology of foreign and domestic teachers into practice. They bring the excellent style, advanced educational concepts and educational methods at home and abroad into the college, forming an integrated advantage and further optimizing the college's backbone faculty.

The key foreign language training courses all employ foreign teachers with many years of teaching experience in China from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Russia, Germany, South Korea, Japan and other countries to teach at the college, in order to improve the listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation abilities of our students. At the same time, ambassadors, counsellors and heads of multinational enterprises are regularly invited to teach part of the courses for the students, to enlighten and cultivate the students' ability to solve practical problems and to expand the students' thinking domain by case teaching method.4. The college has first-class teaching equipment

The college has 20 digital audio-visual studios (ranked the first among the provincial colleges and universities), 8 electronic libraries, 12 multimedia classrooms, 8 computer laboratories, 2700 square meters of computer labs, and 12 multimedia classrooms. There are 8 computer laboratories, a 2700 square meter foreign language training room, 5 physical art training rooms, 3 home economics training rooms, 4 guzheng training rooms, 4 electronic piano training rooms, 1 English nursing laboratory, and 1 psychological counseling laboratory. In addition, the college has two sets of English wired and wireless radio transmitting equipment, and a TV relay tower that can receive 30 Chinese and foreign language TV programs at the same time. The total value of teaching equipment amounts to more than 12 million yuan. At present, the library has 150,000 printed documents, more than 400 kinds of printed Chinese periodicals, 8 electronic libraries, 900,000 Chinese e-books, 500,000 foreign language e-books, and more than 3,700 kinds of Chinese e-periodicals. At the same time, the campus LAN, campus telephone network, campus wireless broadcasting network and campus bilingual TV station (can receive "BBC" and other nine foreign sound channels), multi-functional studio, rehearsal halls, student activity rooms and other configurations, 8 broadband access to large-scale campus Internet cafes are open to the students around the clock.

5. Positioning of foreign-related universities

Our college is a foreign-related university officially approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China: (1) it has the qualification of hiring foreign teachers independently, so that it can establish a stable team of its own foreign teachers; (2) it has the qualification of having equal exchanges with the foreign education administration and its regular colleges and universities approved and recognized by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in the areas of teachers' resources, education resources and academics, so that the students can really communicate with each other in the areas of teachers' resources, education resources and academics. (2) It is qualified to have equal exchanges with foreign educational administrative departments and their approved and recognized formal universities in terms of teachers' resources, educational resources and academics, so that the students can be truly immersed in the campus environment of an internationalized university and feel the atmosphere of internationalized education; (3) It can directly send foreign students to each other with foreign formal institutions of higher education on the basis of mutual recognition of credits, which can shorten the time of studying abroad and save the cost of studying abroad.

6, landscaped campus landscape

Step into the main gate of the college, under the shade of green, a 50-meter wide pedestrian street running through the north and south of the campus, the south of the teaching area consisting of a cluster of high-standard teaching buildings, e-learning and library buildings, etc., and the north of the living area consisting of a cluster of apartment buildings, catering centers, etc., between the two areas of the European style is a bright European cultural promenade, the promenade west of the shade of paved areas, a 400-meter running track and soccer field in one. The west of the corridor is a large sports ground with a 400-meter running track and a soccer field; the east of the campus is a leisure plaza and a park with corridors and pavilions, green grass; morning reading and evening dancing; and a very scenic view! Immediately adjacent to the living area there are 8 basketball courts, 6 volleyball courts, 10 badminton courts.

7. All-English Contextual Teaching Methods

From the "bilingual teaching" at the time of admission to the gradual evolution of the "all-foreign-language education", whether it is classroom teaching, teacher-student exchanges, peer-to-peer exchanges, or the campus broadcasting, bilingual TV on campus, dining, campus shopping and other daily life all in foreign languages, the campus is the best way to teach students. The campus shopping and other daily life are all in foreign language as the main language of communication, so that the whole campus to form a strong foreign language learning environment, so that the college has become the provincial capital of the "academic English Square", and rapidly improve the students' listening and speaking skills.

8, multi-level education and teaching overpass

College three-year college students in the year of graduation can participate in the spring and summer seasons of the special selection examination, according to the enrollment of colleges and universities in the current year, the merit of the key undergraduate colleges and universities in the province to continue their studies; can also choose to "specialize in this", to participate in the college organized by the undergraduate section of the self-study exams, and the college will be able to provide students with the best education. Alternatively, students can choose to study undergraduate degree by taking the self-study examination organized by the college and obtain the bachelor's degree in the following year after obtaining the certificate of graduation of specialized course. After obtaining the bachelor's degree, undergraduates can continue to choose to enter graduate studies and apply for a master's degree.

9. Internship, Employment, Further Study, Study Abroad

Our college recommends qualified students to receive closed contextual training abroad for 2-6 months in the second semester of the third academic year; it implements order education for some of the popular majors, and students can be recommended by the college for employment after graduation; they can also choose to go to Singapore, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Canada and some European countries and regions for further study.

10. Unique Talent Cultivation Mode

The college adopts the talent cultivation mode of "Chinese language background + foreign language expertise + professional knowledge + public **** skills". In the first academic year, all the students are provided with English basic intensive training courses; in the second and third academic years, the students are provided with professional courses and vocational skills courses respectively, and at the same time, three additional public **** skills courses are provided, namely, "automobile driving, microcomputer application and Chinese writing". More than 50% of the students can approach the TOEFL or IELTS level when they graduate.