The Foreign Languages Department
The faculty team consists of full-and part-time teachers totaling over 80. Among them 7 are foreign teachers and 18 are associate professors. Most of the teachers have been awarded MA degree. With a view of its future, every year, the department sends, in batches, its teachers abroad either for further learning or as visiting scholars.
Both the teachers and the students have access to a library of academic resources in foreign languages, 4 state-of-the-art language labs, 2 multi-media rooms, and 1 simulated business conference room. The facilities assist the teachers and students in gathering information on the Internet, organizing teaching or learning activities, and working on their research papers and studies.
Over the past 20 years the students of the department have won various nation-wide or province-wide competitions or remarkably succeeded in various tests. Here is part of the long list of honours: the number of the English-major students who pass CET Band 4 tops among the best colleges in Guangxi province; the number of the Japanese-major students who pass the annual International Test on the Level of Japanese Proficiency is considerable. At the province level English public speaking contests or in the preliminary of the first nation-wide Youth and Juvenile Contest of English Proficiency, the candidates from the department finished first in the College Students Group; and at the Guangxi province level of the nation-wide CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest, the candidates from the department beat the contestants from the other colleges and impressed the judges with their brilliant performances.
Once every year the department holds a festival of plays in foreign languages. This is one of the important after-class activities carefully and earnestly organized by the department. To take part in the festival, the students are required, by putting to use what they have learned, to write play-scripts and direct their plays all by themselves. The festival has attracted the attention not only of other colleges within Guangxi Province and beyond, but it also gained recognition in many media outlets. The success and impact of the festival lies in the undisputable fact that the students are competent in the command of foreign languages, in their ability to organize big events and in their display of originality and great practical skills.