对理工院校外语专业发展的思考

Food for Thought on the Development of the Foreign Languages Programs in the Science and Engineering Institutes

从市场竞争和经济社会发展要求等方面分析了改革开放30年来理工院校外语专业发展面临的挑战,提出理工院校应该从学科队伍、科研方向、科研成果、学位点、专业资料室等方面加强学科建设,同时应积极探索具有理工院校自身特色的外语专业复合型人才培养的模式,两手都要抓,两手都要硬。

The article analyzes,from the aspects of social development and competition,the challenges that the foreign languages programs in science and engineering institutes have faced in China＇s 30 years＇ development of reform and opening-up.The article agues that science and engineering institutes should strengthen the discipline construction from the aspects of academic contingent,discipline orientation,discipline achievements,degree programs and professional reference rooms,while maintaining foreign language majors cultivation modes of their own features,both of which shall be managed properly and equally.