英语专业的危机在于单纯的语言技能训练和坚持英语专业本质是人文教育,因此培养的毕业生很难满足国家和社会对跨界复合型人才的要求。英语专业要勇于突破,增设专门用途英语学科方向,致力于培养除英美语言文学之外的其他人文学科和自然学科方面的英语专门人才,即用英语掌握各个学科的知识构建,培养他们用英语汲取和表达各专业和行业内容的能力。英语专业及其支撑的学科只有满足国家和社会的发展需求才能发展,这是新时代背景下高校外语教育规划迫切需要解决的问题。

The crisis of the English undergraduate program lies in the training of students with the limited language skills and the insistence on humanistic education as its core. Therefore, it is difficult for them to meet the national and social needs for interdisciplinary compound talents. The English undergraduate program is in dire need of a breakthrough by developing English for specific purposes under the discipline of English linguistics. The sub-discipline is committed to cultivating undergraduates to become familiar with the language in humanities and natural sciences besides English and American language and literature. They are trained to have a better understanding of the construction and dissemination of disciplinary knowledge in English and to be equipped with the ability to access and express content in various disciplines and professions in English. The English undergraduate program and its supported disciplines cannot be healthily developed if the needs of the national and social development could not be fully met. This is an urgent problem that needs to be solved when planning tertiary foreign language education in the new era.