Abstract:

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.

Key words: Chinese modernization, foreign-related rule of law, New Liberal Arts, a new model of tertiary foreign language education, cultivation planning of professionals