语言学院是以培养中小学语文、英语教师为主的二级学院，始建于2001年，当时面向全国招生五年制英语专业学生，2003年，学院开始招收三年制英语教育专业学生。2016年，语言学院正式成立，同年，英语（师范）专业本科招生。2017年，汉语言文学（师范）本科专业招生。学院现设有英语系、中文系和大学外语公共教研室三个系室。2021年底，中国语言文学入选“十四五”江苏省重点学科，英语专业入选江苏省高校一流本科专业建设点和特色专业建设点。
语言学院现有教职员工65人，专任教师55人，其中教授4人，副教授18人，主任编辑2人，讲师25人；具有博士学位19人，硕士学位45人。有江苏省“333工程”第三层次人才1人，江苏省“青蓝工程”优秀青年骨干教师、双创博士等5人；省级普通话测试员3人。学院常年聘请外籍教师授课，有20多名教师曾赴美、英、加、澳、日、俄等国家著名高校交流和进修学习。2015年学校升格成本科院校以来，学院教师获批国家级和省部级课题10余项，厅局级课题40余项，获省级和厅局级优秀科研成果奖6项，公开发表术论文150余篇，其中SCI和SSCI收录12篇，CSSCI期刊收录20余篇，中文核心期刊收录50余篇，出版学术专著和教材25部，其中国家规划教材1部。
学院拥有省级一流课程3门、校级各类精品课程15门，获批14项省级和校级教改课题。近三年教师在各级教学大赛获省级以上奖近30项，指导学生参加省级学科类比赛获奖186项，指导省级大学生创新创业项目30余项。学院创新对外交流形式，深化国际合作育人，成果显著：从2020年起，连续举办中俄大学生语言文化线上交流活动；与台湾彰化师范大学中文和英语专业实现部分课程学分互认；组织苏教国际的海外留学和TESOL证书宣讲会，和马来西亚沙捞越大学开展合作。2023年12月和2024年1月，学院先后组织32名学子赴马来西亚沙捞越大学进行为期一周的研学活动，通过课程体验和文化交流提高国际化办学水平，培养具有国际视野的现代高素质语言人才。近年来，有多名学生参加境外短期交流项目，2024届毕业生境内外研究生升学率达到11.2%。
学院秉承“博爱塑魂”校训精神，大力实施“特色发展、融通发展、创新发展、开放发展”四大发展战略，积极开展中国语言文学和外国语言文学科学研究，加强课堂教学改革和特色课程建设，承办“语言文学与残障研究”2023年残障人文发展论坛，“命运共同体：语言、文学与残障研究”2024年国际会议等，举办“诵读新时代 典亮新征程——语言学院首届博爱文化经典诵读”活动，不断提升本科人才应用能力培养，为普通中小学和特殊教育学校培养高质量中英文师资做出积极贡献。
School of Languages
The School of Languages is a sub-college primarily dedicated to training English and Chinese teachers for elementary and secondary schools. Established in 2001, it initially enrolled students nationwide for its five-year English major program. In 2003, the college began admitting three-year English Education majors to enhance its teacher training system. The School of Languages was officially established in 2016, launching its undergraduate program in English (Teacher Education) in the same year. In 2017, it initiated the undergraduate program in Chinese Language and Literature (Teacher Education). The school currently comprises three academic units: the Department of English, the Department of Chinese, and the Teaching and Research Office of College English. At the end of 2021, the major of Chinese Language and Literature was designated as a Key Discipline of Jiangsu Province in 14th Five-Year Plan program, while the major of English was selected for both the Jiangsu Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Major Development Initiative and the Distinctive Major Development Program in higher education institutions.
The school employs 65 faculty members, including 4 professors, 18 associate professors，2 chief editors and 25 lecturers, among whom 19 have doctoral degrees and 45 hold master’s degrees. Together, there is 1 third-level talent of 333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project, 5 awardees including Outstanding Young Backbone Teachers (Jiangsu Qinglan Project) and Double Creation Doctors. and 3 provincial Mandarin testers. The school has been employing foreign teachers for several courses and 20 of our facilities have visited prestigious universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, Russia and other countries for exchanges and advanced studies. Since the University was upgraded for hosting undergraduate education in 2015, members of the school have been approved with more than 10 research projects at national and provincial/ministerial levels as well as over 40 projects at the provincial level, and six projects were honored with the outstanding scientific research output awards by Jiangsu Province and its municipal departments or bureaus. Additionally, the faculty members have published more than 150 academic papers—including 12 in SCI/SSCI journals, over 20 in CSSCI journals, and 50+ in Chinese core journals—alongside 25 academic monographs and textbooks, one of which is nationally recognized.
The school offers three provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses, fifteen school-level excellent courses, and 14 teaching reform projects at the provincial and university levels. Teachers have won more than 30 awards of or above the provincial level in various teaching competitions and micro-course teaching contests, and guided students to win over 186 prizes in different kinds of provincial discipline competitions, and more than 30 provincial College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs. The school is devoted to adopting new forms of foreign exchanges to deepen international cooperation in education, obtaining remarkable achievements. Since 2020, we have been holding online language and culture exchange activities for Chinese and Russian college students for three years in a row. We encourage students to study overseas (online) and formulated schemes for exchange programs with the National Changhua University of Education for Chinese and English majors, realizing mutual recognition and transfer of credits. We organize information sessions on overseas study programs and TESOL certificate. We also have established a collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). In December 2023 and January 2024, the school organized two batches of 32 students for a week-long study tour at UNIMAS. By integrating courses experience and cultural exchange, the school enhances its international educational standards and cultivates modern, high-caliber language professionals with a global vision. In the past few years, many graduates went to aboard for short-term exchanges and pursued master’s degrees overseas, with 11.2% of the 2024 graduating class pursuing overseas master’s programs.
Guided by its motto, Universal Love Nurtures the Soul, the School adheres to four core development strategies: distinctiveness, integration, innovation, and openness. It conducts extensive scientific research in both Chinese and foreign languages and literatures, enhances teaching innovation and specialized curricula, and hosts academic events like the 2023 Forum on Humanistic Development, themed Language, Literature, and Disability Studies, and the 2024 International Conference on Community of Shared Future: Language, Literature, and Disability Studies. Additionally, it launched the inaugural “Reciting the Classics of Philanthropic Culture” event, themed Echoing the New Era, Illuminating the New Journey. Through these efforts, the School of Languages strengthens undergraduates’ practical skills and plays a key role in training highly qualified Chinese and English teachers for general and special education.
