今天是“新文科”的时代。新文科对于外语专业的意义何在?对外语人与外语专业的学生意味着什么?对外语专业的建设与发展提供了何种发展机遇?外语专业又该如何充分利用新文科去强化自身建设?本文对上述问题进行了深入思考,并尝试去寻找答案。

At present, new humanities must be constructed under the background of overall promotion of “new discipline”. The essence of new-discipline construction is to establish a new mode of training talents who meet the needs of the development in the 21st century, rather than to simply do the so-called “teaching reform”. The innovation of “new discipline” is mainly reflected in the following four aspects: first, the organic integration of humanities, science and engineering, and professional curriculum and ideological-political education; second, the reorganization or creation of new knowledge and new specialty system; third, the emphasis on the cultivation of people's thinking ability through the teaching of knowledge; and fourth, the establishment of new subject relationship between “teaching” and “learning”. On this basis, new foreign literature teaching must redefine the connotation of the discipline itself and the composition of new knowledge system; cultivate teachers’ and students’ thinking ability on the premise of “asking questions” through “back to the text” and “out of the text”; and improve learners' understanding of different essence between Chinese and foreign cultures to better serve the Chinese literary discourse system construction.