The 12th Five-Year Plan…

The 12th Five-Year Plan…

I. A brief introduction of the college andits status of running

1. History: The College ofForeign Languages dates back to 1965 when two undergraduate programs in Englishand French were launched. The history of undergraduate teaching  has been 46 years so far; the graduateeducation began in 1979.

2. Organization:TheCollege of Foreign Languages consists of a series of departments: English department one (shipping Englishdirection),  English department two (translationdirection),  English departmentthree(Business English direction), Japanese department, University English Teaching Department (includinguniversity English first, second and third teaching and research office),comprehensive English staff room, audio-visual office, public foreign languageteaching room, Chinese language and Culture Center (Chinese language group).  

3.  Major & DegreeProgram: The College of Foreign Language consistsof English and Japanese two undergraduate programs, "foreign language andliterature" the first level discipline, "foreign linguistics andApplied Linguistics", "English language and literature" and"Japanese language literature" three master's degree in second leveldiscipline, and  "master oftranslation" (MTI) professional degree.

4. Academic Institutions and Testing Center: The College of Foreign Languages also offers Language and CultureResearch Institute, Translation Research Institute, Comparison between Englishand Chinese and the Application Research Institute, the International Shipping(Business) English Institute, Institute of Language Policy and LanguagePlanning, Language and Cognition Research Institute, Chinese Teaching andApplication Ability Testing Institute; and the Ministry of Education BusinessEnglish, Japanese Language Test Center.

5. Staff Allocation and the number of students: The college of Foreign Languages possesses 130 existing staff,including 118 full-time teachers; 837 full-time undergraduate students, 264full-time graduate students and 5 full-time graduate degree foreign students.

6. English Language Teaching: TheCollege of Foreign Languages undertakes the public foreign language teachingand Chinese teaching for all the undergraduate students and graduate  students in this university.

II.The Existing Structure of Teachers

    From the table we can see, except the low proportion of doctoral degreein the degree structure,faculties in the professional title structure, agestructure, education related structure and overseas experience, are reasonableon the whole; the proportion of Professor, associate professor, lecturer andassistant is basically at around 1:3:5:1; age in the backbone 36 years old ~55years old reached 59.33%, 35 years old and below holds 33.05%; 77.12% of theteachers are from outside the university; 81.35% teachers study abroad.

III. Analysis of the present situation of CollegeTeachers

In the strong supportof the university and the university personnel department, through continuousefforts in recent years, the college has made some achievements instrengthening the teaching staff,professional curriculum development andscientific research,the overall strength increased. Compared with the start of"the 11th five-year plan", when there were 122 teachers in total,including 7 professors, 2 teachers with doctoral degree and 1 PhD candidate;now the college has 118 teachers, including 12 professors, 24 teachers withdoctoral degree and 8 on-the-job doctorate teachers. College basicallycompleted the new and old professor team alternate, smooth transition; now theprofessor team are made up of teachers born after the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.  In recent five years, the college has sent 54teachers to USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries  to study.

Although the collegehas made a rapid development in the building of the contingent of teachers,some aspects still need further improvement.

First of all,thedegree structure of teachers needs to be further optimized. In the period of"the 11th five-year plan", the degree structure of full time teachershas bigger adjustment and optimization, but the number of teachers in thedoctoral degree is still to be improved, especially in the university Englishteachers, teachers with doctoral has very low proportion. In the 118 full-timeteachers,49 teachers teaching university English; including 2 doctoral degreeteachers,which accounts for only 4% of the total number of university Englishteachers;besides, there are 13 associate professors, 33 lecturers and 3assistant professors. No professor at present.

Secondly, teachers'disciplines (Professional) distribution needs further adjustment. The disciplineconstruction teams of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, translationof professional master's degree and Japanese language and literature and so onneed to be further strengthened and enriched, especially in the translationstudies, applied or "double teacher type" talents urgently needs tobe enriched and builded. Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics andtranslation of professional master degree program exist 4 Professors, of which2 are professors over the age of 55. Besides,teachers with high translationpractice ability is relatively lack, but more than 2/3 graduate studentsdistribute in the two directions. Master of Arts in Japanese language is a newprogram, planning a formal admission in 2013, there exist 1 professor and 4associate professors.  The academic teamneed adjust.

Furthermore, the teambuilding of the college which regards discipline (direction) as the core hasjust started. The support, encouragement and evaluation system is to beestablished and perfected; and the college teachers team construction also needto adapt to the new trend of foreign language disciplines and adjustment, andin accordance with the needs of university development. Since the beginning ofthe end of 2006, according to the college "the 11th five-year plan"development planning, the college has established 8 subject groups taking thesubject orientation, in order to promote the building of the contingent ofteachers. We take this as the foundation, established 7 academic research institute(intends to build 1 ~ 2), the basic task of Research Institute is to hold theteam together and promote the construction of teachers team in the direction ofthe subject project application and construction of team cohesion,; at the sametime to create them for students in the direction of this course as the secondclassroom.  In view of this, the collegeis necessary to balance, improve and expand the Institute faculty, and toprovide support for the Institute to complete its basic goal.

Ⅳ.    College of Foreign Languages "The 12thFive-Year Plan"  Period for FacultyConstruction Planing(link is external)  

1.The General Idea

   The team is thefoundation, and the talent is the key.

   Theconstruction of teacher team in the college of "the 12th Five-YearPlan" period  will focus on theexisting problems of professional disciplines and development needs forteachers team construction, which well prepared for the declaration of doctoraldiscipline of English. The overall development thought of "The 12thFive-Year Plan" is "refining disciplines direction, deepeningteaching reform, optimizing academic environment, taking the" 085"project as an opportunity, the introduce and sent as the starting point,taking college institute construction as the platform to build good faculty. Atthe end of "the 12th five-year plan", the College has a strongdisciplinary strength in the country, have great influence in the Shanghai areacolleges and universities, and further enhance the radiation effects and statusof the College of foreign language and subject in national universities.

2.Plan for Development of Discipline and Teaching Reform  

  Reinforcing the teaching basis, and constantly improving the quality ofteaching is the foundation of the college, and the subject development is theimportant cornerstone to the college talent pool and to do a good job in theconstruction of teachers, and is also the reliable guarantee to improve theeffectiveness of teaching quality. In "the 12th five-year plan"period, the discipline construction and teaching reform of the college willfocus on the following work:

  1)  To further strengthen the building of the contingent of teachers inforeign linguistics and applied linguistics, master of translation and Japanese language and literature and otherdisciplines, and to do a good job in the declaration of the undergraduatecourses on Business English and translation.

2) According to the characteristics and the reality of our university,deepening the reform of university English teaching, improving teachingeffects, and continuously improving the quality of university English teaching.

3) Do a good preparations for reporting the foreign language and literaturedoctoral level disciplines (the four two level of discipline direction: Englishlanguage and literature, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics,translation, Japanese language and Literature). 

3. The Overall Goal of The Building of Teacher Team

  According to the overall development ideas and the plan of disciplinedevelopment and teaching reform, especially to do good preparation for thedeclaration of foreign languages and literature doctoral level subjects during"the 12th five-year plan" period for the college, working out theoverall goal of college "the 12th five-year plan" teacher teambuilding are as follows:

1)     On the basis of strengthening the existing disciplines and professional developmentof teachers connotation construction, to further expand the contingent ofteachers. At the end of "the 12th five-year plan", the total numberof full-time teachers is to reach around 135 (depending on the university andcolleges developing requirement).

2)     To optimize degree structure, at the end of "the 12th five-yearplan", improving the ratio of full-time teachers with master degree andabove to 99%, including a ratio of PhD full-time teachers over 35%.

3)     Appropriate to enhance the proportion of faculty, at the end of "the 12thfive-year plan", the professor ratio of the college will reach 10 ~ 12%,and the title of senior teachers ratio will account for about 45% of the totalnumber of teachers.

4)     To further improve the work of introducing talents, the college introduces 5 or6 teachers a year on average, which has more doctoral degree teachers with theproportion of above  2/3 of theintroduced talents. Especially according to the need of deepening theuniversity English teaching reform, further optimize the structure ofuniversity English teacher team.

5)     To establish and train a high-quality team of interpreters, at the end of"the 12th five-year plan", the number of interpreters will reach 4 ~6, and stably play its role in high specification interpretation, internationalconferences or contact,to enhance and improve the visibility of the universityin the field of international shipping.

4. The Specific Contents of Building Teacher Team in"The 12th Five-Year Plan" Period

   Theabove three goal of the college about the development of discipline andteaching reform in "the 12th five-year plan" period are the mainbasis for the building of the contingent of teachers in "the 12thfive-year plan" period, and they are also the important contents ofbuilding teacher team in "the 12th five-year plan" period. thespecific contents are as followed:

1)     Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics and translation of professionalmaster degree are urgently in need of application type or "double teachertype" talents. These two degrees do good in English and Chinesetranslation theory and practice and contrast between English and Chinese andtranslation. The teaching policy of the subject is: both translation theory andtranslation practice are important and focus on practice, both English Chinesetranslation and the Chinese English translation are important and emphasize onC-E translation, especially the teaching of translation of professional masterdegree, which should mainly based on application and practice. Seeing from thetraditional graduate education and characteristics and requirement of master ofprofessional translation, the college need to introduce and cultivate talentsin translation direction, especially the "double teacher type"talents. Plans to introduce 1 professor in translation direction, 5~ 8 teacherswith doctoral degree; 4～6interpretation trainers. On the other, to strengthen the teachers team buildingin business English major, and intends to introduce 3～5English teachers with the knowledge of international commerce and shippingbusiness.

2)     University English teaching reform is a systematic project which involveswidely, many participants, and large the social impact. The guiding principleof the reform is to further improve the quality of teaching, especially toimprove students' communicative ability in applying foreign languages.University English teaching reform, besides the improvement of teachingcontents, teaching methods and teaching mechanism, further need to createopportunities and provide business exchanges, learning and education platformfor university English teachers; plans to introduce 8～10 university teachers with doctoraldegree, in order to optimize the English Teachers University degreestructure,  the college have to improvethe knowledge structure of university English teachers; at the same time, universityEnglish teacher team should have 1 ~ 2 teachers with high title.

3)     Teachers and the building of foreign language and literature doctorate leveldiscipline. The college reports foreign linguistics and literature doctorallevel subjects in the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period. According tothe existing disciplines and status of teachers, proposes to set up fourtwo-level discipline directions: English language and literature, foreignlinguistics and applied linguistics, translation and Japanese language andliterature. In the four directions, the English language and literatureteachers are available, there are 7 professors, 8 associate professors and 2Dr. lecturers. The title,degree and age structure are more reasonable; theforeign linguistics and applied linguistics direction has 3 professors, 9associate professors and 2 Dr. lecturers; the translation direction has 1professor, 3 associate professors and 1 Dr. lecturer; Japanese language andliterature has 1 professor, 4 associate professors, and 4 Dr. lecturers. Fromthe above analysis it can be seen that the number of lecturers with doctoraldegree in every teaching staff direction is low; in addition, the number ofprofessors in the direction of Japanese language and literature is also toosmall. In order to prepare the teachers and the construction of the declarationof a doctoral level discipline, the college plans to introduce around 10doctoral teachers, so that every discipline direction has 4~5 Dr. lecturers;and also plans to introduce or develop 1 professor in the direction of Japaneselanguage and literature.

Above are the goalsand tasks of the college of foreign languages in "the 12th five-year"talent (teacher) team building, please review.

                                        The College of Foreign Languages

                                         In November 22, 2011