The School of Foreign Languages, JUST, is formerly known as the English Department of East China Shipbuilding Institute. It was renamed the School of Foreign Languages in 2005. Currently, it consists of branches including: the English Department, ESL(English as a Second Language), English Teaching for Undergraduates, ESL English Teaching for Graduates, Foreign Language Training Center, Experimental Center of Foreign Language Teaching and Phonetics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Pearl S. Buck Studies and Institute of Foreign Literature.
The School has a comptent and devoted staff who have an international outlook and the staff members are well-educated, professional, competent, dedicated and energetic. There are 98 full-time teachers in the school. Among them, there are 2 professors, 23 associate professors and 71 lecturers.
In the School, there are 15 standardized language laboratories, two web-assisted self-access learning centers, one phonetic science laboratory at the internationally advanced level, one experimental and training demonstration center for comprehensive language skills, one multi-model language training center, one business English negotiations & simultaneous interpretation laboratory, one automatic phonetic & conversation testing platform and one online automatic English compositions testing platform, which in all cover an floor area of more than 1,600 m2 and have been installed with over 5,000,000 Yuan’s worth of fixed assets (totaling 280 articles).
The School started to enroll undergraduates on a 4-year program in 2001. In September, 2007, it started to enroll postgraduates majoring in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Now it has a student population of over 300, including both undergraduates and postgraduates.
Nowadays, technological innovation, cultural inheritance, talent cultivation and society service have become the basic duties of contemporary universities. Based on the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, ancient and modern civilizations, the School of Foreign languages of JUST is moving toward a bright future with a open mind and vigorous strides.