2017年5月24日上午，简而明教育集团董事长夏明一行七人来我院参观访问，外国语学院院长、党总支书记陶文好，副院长谢文婷，行政秘书孙冬雪等热情接待了来访客人。
双方在亲切友好的氛围中进行了会谈。首先创始人夏明先生介绍了“简而明英语”教育集团：“简而明英语”，是一群在国内享有盛誉的英语教授、专家、博士怀着“让英语学习更简单”的教育使命，精心打造的知名品牌，历经14年的研发、实验和推广，其两项核心技术"英语直注音标"和"英语模型语法"的独特性、颠覆性和高效性得到了教育专家、教师、学生、家长的高度认可。"英语直注音标"被列为全国教育科学"十二.五"教育部规划课题的区域专项课题，全国189所中小学曾参与了此项课题的实验，效果非常显著。
陶文好院长对此给予了高度的评价和认可，并表示学院将邀请“简而明英语”教育集团的专家为本科生、研究生以及教师开展系列讲座，使学院师生能近距离聆听一线英语教学改革与创新的最新成果。双方就教育实习基地以及科研方面的合作进行了深入的探讨，为今后学术项目的开展奠定了坚实的基础。
Representatives from Jermaine International Education Visiting the School of Foreign Languages
On the morning of May 24th, 2017, Mr. Xia Ming, board chairman of Jermaine International Education, together with 6 other representatives visited the School of Foreign Languages (SFL). Professor Tao Wenhao, Dean of the SFL; Associate Professor Xie Wenting, Vice Dean of the SFL and Sun Dongxue, Secretary of Administration, warmly received the guests.
The talk started in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. In the beginning, Mr. Xia Ming, founder of Jermaine International Education gave everybody present a brilliant introduction: Jermaine International Education is a renowned brand elaborately established by a group of prestigious professors, language experts and learned scholars with the common educational mission of “making English learning simpler”. After 14 years of research & development, experiment and promotion, two of its core achievements named “direct phonetic symbol indication” and “model of grammar” have been highly recognized by experts, teachers, students as well as parents for their peculiarity, subversiveness and efficiency. Furthermore, “direct phonetic symbol indication” has been listed as the regional special research project of the 12th Five-year Plan on national education science launched by the Ministry of Education, with its participants covering 189 primary and secondary schools across the country. Significant results have been achieved toward this project.
Last but not least, Dean Tao spoke highly of the fruitful achievements and expressed his hope to invite experts from Jermaine International Education to hold lecture series for undergraduates, postgraduates and also for teachers, enabling everyone to have the opportunity of acquiring the latest outcomes of reform and innovation on first-line English teaching. In addition, the two sides conducted an in-depth discussion on construction of education internship base and scientific research cooperation, thus laying a solid foundation for future cooperation on academic projects.
