International conference explores new paradigms for English teaching

An Yan, representing the China Education Association for International Exchange, extended warm congratulations in the conference's opening. She stated that language teaching is the primary "entry point" of Sino-Foreign cooperative education and the "foundational project" for achieving "two-way mutual learning". It not only serves the function of knowledge transfer but also bears the contemporary responsibility of fostering cross-cultural communication and building value consensus. Looking ahead, she urged focus on three core directions: first, fundamentally improving quality and efficiency by optimizing curriculum systems and cross-cultural competency development pathways, ensuring that language teaching truly enhances the quality of education. Second, utilizing digital empowerment, leveraging digital resource platforms from China and abroad, and deeply integrating AI with language teaching to break spatiotemporal constraints and benefit more teachers and students. Third, embracing "two-way mutual learning" as the core, absorbing advanced international teaching concepts and methods, and integrating Chinese elements and disciplinary characteristics to construct a new language teaching paradigm with international vision and Chinese foundations.

Zhang Hui, representing BJUT, welcomed experts and scholars and pointed out that Sino-Foreign cooperative education, as a crucial vehicle for educational opening-up, plays an irreplaceable role in introducing high-quality educational resources, innovating talent cultivation models, and promoting people-to-people exchanges between China and other countries. Foreign language teaching, being a fundamental and pioneering component, is not only crucial for enhancing students' language and cross-cultural communication skills but also the cornerstone for successful talent cultivation within these programs. He called on administrators and frontline English teachers in Sino-Foreign cooperative education institutions and projects to spare no effort, innovate boldly, continuously conduct teaching reforms and practices, reconstruct the underlying logic of English teaching, and explore new paradigms and pathways.