蓬勃发展之后的理性思考和建议——再论我国高校商务英语学科未来的发展前景

Some Reflections on the Development of Business English as a Discipline

自从教育部2007年春正式批准我国高校增设商务英语本科专业以来的几年中,商务英语学科经历了一个蓬勃发展的时期,而后便开始进入一个稳步的、逐步走向成熟的发展新时期。本文对新时期商务英语学科的发展作了一番理性的思考,作者认为:学科未来的发展应该做到定位科学、规模适中、发展平稳、质量提升,以期学科的理论建设、制度建设和文化建设有新的突破,更好地为国家和社会培养出胸怀社会意识、法律意识、创新和创业意识,身怀跨语言、跨文化、跨学科才能的复合型英语人才。

The past years saw a vigorous development of the discipline of Business English in China＇s colleges and universities.This discipline is now faced with a turning point towards a new stage of steady and increasingly mature development.The present author argues that,at this point,it is necessary to have a rational thinking of the discipline＇s future development.The author then makes some suggestions on how to define the discipline scientifically,how to plan its development scale moderately,how to keep its development steadily and how to achieve better results in the teaching,in the theoretical research and in the training of inter-disciplinary talents of English for the country and the society.