新外语人才是涉外法治工作的重要人员组成,是国内法治与国际治理的衔接与桥梁,是实现中国式法治现代化的中坚力量。当前新外语人才培养的主要问题包括新外语人才培养的标准与规划方向尚待厘清、规划体系尚未突破学科壁垒等。运用外语教育规划相关理论能够更全面地回答“为谁培养人、培养什么样的人、如何培养人”等关涉新外语人才培养的核心问题。新外语人才的培养标准包括坚持守正创新、通晓涉外法律工作、掌握法律英语以及其他法律外语、具备国际传播能力、讲好中国法治故事。以“融思政、融法学、融智能”为规划方向,服务于涉外法治建设的新外语人才培养亟须在战略地位、调查研究、报告总结、政策制定、政策实施和规划评估等方面进行全面体系化规划。

New foreign language professionals as an important component of the foreign-related rule of law, function as a bridge between the domestic rule of law and international governance, and play a vital role in the modernization of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. The current problems of the cultivation of new foreign language professionals can be attributed to a vague standard of what shall be done and how it is done in their training. The vision of foreign language teaching is still bogged in out-dated notions. The relevant theories of Foreign Language Education Planning might hint on clues as to the core questions of “who, what, and how”in designing new foreign language programs. A new foreign language professional is one with personality integrity and a creative mind, well trained in law and legal English or otherwise, and able to share the Chinese stories of the rule of law in international occasions. Hence, a systematic and comprehensive planning approach, taking into account such factors as the strategic positioning, investigation and research, report summarization, policy formulation, policy implementation, and planning assessment, is required for designing the cultivation program of new foreign language professionals in the direction of “integrating ideology and politics, jurisprudence, and intelligence” to serve the construction of the foreign-related rule of law.