全球治理视域下我国外语语种规划研究

Planning the choice of foreign languages in China under the scenario of global governance

新时代中国积极参与全球治理,但外语教育未能为国家的全球治理提供足够的语种服务,我国外语教育中存在一定程度的语种安全问题。为此,本文根据Corson(1990)和Baldauf et al.(2008)的外语教育政策理论梳理了语种规划的定义、属性、分类和外语选择标准,然后据此统计了我国建交国家及未建交周边国家的官方语言(共94门)及其分值,最后再根据各语言的分值等因素将它们分为8个等级,以期为我国国家层面的语种规划以及国内各高校的语种规划提供一些理论依据和语种参考。此外,本研究也可丰富我国外语教育政策学科发展中有关语种规划的内容。

Nowadays, China is taking an active part in the global governance, which requires the services of various foreign languages, but some of which are not being taught in China, thus there exists foreign language insecurities in education. In order to address the problem, this paper is dedicated to illustrating according to Corson(1990) and Baldauf et al.(2008)the theoretical framework of language planning about the choice of foreign languages in education, and to dealing with such practices in China under the scenario of global governance, by collecting and classifying the official languages of the countries who have established diplomatic relationship with China, as well as the countries who are China’ s neighbours regardless of diplomatic status. The research result shows that there are 94 foreign languages worth teaching in China, and that these foreign languages can be categorized into 8 classes, which will be of some use for reference to the different universities in China while making choices of foreign languages for teaching, and to the development of foreign language education policy.