On March 20th, 2015, Professor Wang Xiaolu, Dean of the School of Foreign Language Studies, and Associate Professor Zhang Zhengmei, Deputy Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages attended the 9th National Senior Forum of English Majors in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
On behalf of SFLS, NIT, Professor Wang introduced the series of off-campus practices at NIT, “Beyond the Voice”, which aroused the interests of all the participants. The theme of the forum is Interpretation and Implementation of National Standards of the English major. Professor Zhong Meisun, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Chairman of the Foreign Language Studies Steering Committee, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, pointed out that the new national standards would focus on the capacity of all the college students rather than the most outstanding achievements by a certain number of the students. As an English major, one should be acquainted with such subjects as national geography, international relationship, and literature to expand ones horizon and think critically.