On September 26th, 2018, Professor Tao Wenhao, the Dean and the General Party Branch Secretary of SFL, gave students a lecture named Reconceptualizing English Major Education Pattern under the Background of New Era: Fulfilling the Cultural Confidence of the 19th National Congress of CPC. This is the first class given by the General Party Branch Secretary of our school this semester.

By an interaction with students, Dean Tao firstly discussed why we should learn foreign languages. In his view, learning English was not only to improve the soft power of our country, but also to carry forward the Chinese culture all over the world. The suggestion offered to students by Professor Tao was that they should enrich their knowledge, make efforts to be versatile talents, and pursue the self-development in a way of high-level and multilevel, which would be helpful to adapt themselves to requirements of English major education nowadays. Lastly, Dean Tao analyzed the current English education and stated that students should acquire the critical thinking skills and learn how to present and popularize traditional Chinese culture so as to establish culture confidence. Meanwhile, SFL and BNUZ will enforce the reconceptualizing English major education pattern to be geared to Chinese current situation and the international practice.

The “First Class” by General Secretary of SFL has inspired the students to realize that reconceptualizing English major education pattern will aid the students’ capabilities in introducing Chinese culture, open a wider window for the other countries. The newly-proposed English education pattern from SFL is national, international with Chinese uniqueness.