Abstract:

In the past two decades, the German language major in China has experienced an awkward situation from being “eagerly sought after” to being “sneered at”. Now it is facing unprecedented crises and challenges such as “suspension of enrollment” and “revocation”. The survival crisis of “Double Non” local universities, which do not have advantages in terms of student sources and faculty, is even more severe. The formal establishment of foreign language education studies as a secondary discipline of foreign language and literature has brought a new opportunity for higher foreign language education to reflect on the quality of talent cultivation and find a professional connotation based development path. The quality of foreign language education is reflected in the quality of foreign language talent cultivation, by developing a survey questionnaire on the employment quality of fresh graduates, a survey was conducted on the employment quality of German undergraduate students from 31 “Double Non” local universities across the country. The survey results show that the employment quality is relatively good for the students from “Double Non” local universities that was selected for the “Double Ten Thousand Plan” first-class undergraduate major construction site; while the employment quality of the graduates from universities which were not selected for the “Double Ten Thousand Plan” is worrying. This is reflected in two aspects: on the one hand, nearly half of the graduates cannot pass the PGG exam. On the other hand, graduates face problems such as low employment rates, poor employment prospects, and low professional matching degree. In view of this, “Double Non” local universities should position German majors as application-oriented under the theoretical guidance of foreign language education studies, and cooperate with German universities to carry out application-oriented German talent cultivation.

Key words: Foreign language education studies, “Double Non” local universities, German language undergraduate program, quality of graduate employment