(no more enrollment since 2022)

Training objectives: This major trains high-quality primary school teachers with a solid English language foundation，a broader scientific and cultural knowledge, a certain innovative spirit and practical ability, and a certain educational research ability required for the development of primary education in the 21st century.

Main courses: Basic English, English Listening, Reading and Writing, English Translation, Psychology, Principles of Pedagogy, English Phonetics, Oral English, Advanced English, Educational Research Methods, Primary School English Courses and Teaching Theory, etc.

Schoolsystem: four years

DegreeAwarded: Bachelor of Arts

Majorfeatures: This major relies on two provincial-level key disciplines: the key discipline of pedagogy and the key discipline of English language and literature. Together with the primary education major, it will build amajorwith provincial advantages. This major has established a talent training model of "comprehensive training and strengthening of expertise" to promote the coordinated development of students' English subject literacy and education professional literacy. It not only focuses on cultivating students' comprehensive language ability and international vision, but also focuses on cultivating students' teaching and learning skills and research ability.

Employment and further study: The employment rate of graduates in the past three years has exceeded 95%. Graduates have solid professional knowledge, extensive relevant knowledge, strong professional adaptability, and international vision. Graduates are generally praised by employers; in the past two years, many students have been admitted by The University of British Columbia, the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh and other high-level foreign universities as graduate students.

Updated in November 2023