Good news! Bai Yun, an SFL teacher, won the Special Award at the Sichuan Final of the 6th SFLEP (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Cup National Foreign-Language Teaching Contest, while another teacher Zhang Yongli received the third prize for Business English course education at the same Contest. Bai Yun will share the grand arena with winners from other provinces and areas around China at the SFLEP national final this November. Wish Bai Yun to excel herself there!
The SFLEP National Foreign-Language Teaching Contest was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education (National Foreign Language Teaching Advisory board, the National Advisory Committees on Teaching Foreign Languages to Majors respectively in higher education and in vocational education) and Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. In accordance with the National Outline for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020) and the Opinions on Raising Higher Education Quality in an All-Round Way, the contest aims to build a platform for national teaching competition, to improve the teachers’ qualifications and teaching skills, and to explore a quality foreign-language teaching system with Chinese characteristics.
It’s the sixth year for the SFLEP National Foreign-Language Teaching Contest, whose fairness, authority, seriousness and innovation made it an important high-level event in foreign language education in China. More than a thousand colleges and universities from around the country participated in it every year. The 6th SFLEP Cup was exceptionally focused on teaching English to majors in higher education. Contestants could compete in three majors: English, business English, and translation and interpreting. Shortly before the issuing of the National Standards of Teaching Quality for Undergraduate English Majors, the contest is of great significance to the understanding and implementation of the National Standard. It will motivate the teachers to carry out in-depth research in teaching objectives, models and method, testing and evaluation.
SFL has long been attaching great importance to foreign-language teaching and research, as well as teachers’ development. To prepare for the contest, SFL formed an advisory group to provide training and guidance in textbook choosing, teaching methods, course design, courseware making and contest strategy. Heads of other departments and teachers who had entered other teaching contests were invited to give their suggestions, too. In other words, the awards are the contestants’ individual triumph as well as the pride of SFL.