Foreign Language Education Studies: Discipline, program objectives and social needs

CAI Jigang

Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 188 ›› Issue (2) : 1.

Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 188 ›› Issue (2) : 1.

Foreign Language Education Studies: Discipline, program objectives and social needs

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Foreign Language Education Studies (FLES)has been newly added to the secondary disciplines under the first level discipline of Foreign Languages and Literature after years’ effort of the foreign language field. Literature review, however ,finds that the proposal of constructing of FLES is to meet disciplinary development, contributing to the theoretical studies of foreign language teaching practice. The paper holds a different view and believes that to construct FLES is to satisfy the social needs for qualified foreign language teachers in higher education including primary and secondary education, teachers who receive specialized training of foreign language education. This could resolve the problems of foreign language majors which are believed to qualify the graduates for any jobs with foreign language skills. The paper tries to offer the program of objectives and courses of FLES.

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Foreign Language Education Studies / discipline / program objectives / social needs / foreign language teachers / foreign languages for special purposes

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