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    Talent Cultivation in the Discipline of Foreign Language Education Studies: Connotation, Challenges, and Approaches
    ZHANG Hong, YIN Hang, LI Huiqin
    2025, 25 (1):  3-14.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.001
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    Since the establishment of foreign language education studies as a secondary discipline under the first-level discipline of foreign languages and literatures, talent cultivation in this field has become a crucial issue for promoting the development of this discipline. This article first explores the connotation of talent cultivation in the discipline of foreign language education studies, then analyzes the challenges currently confronted in the talent cultivation process. Finally, in combination with the case of the doctoral program of the foreign language education studies major at Beijing Foreign Studies University, this article attempts to propose principles for developing talent cultivation programs as well as constructing and implementating the curriculum system in the discipline of foreign language education studies, in the hope of providing reference for talent cultivation in this field.

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    Foreign Language Education as a Discipline from the Perspective of Educational Linguistics
    LAI Liangtao
    2025, 25 (1):  15-24.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.002
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    Since the beginning of 2024, foreign language education has been officially established as a new discipline in China. Still at its infant stage, this new discipline needs to learn from relevant mature disciplines to consolidate its foundation. Educational linguistics, focusing on the interaction between language and education, is one of the mature disciplines that can provide useful insights and inspirations for the development of foreign language education. From the perspective of educational linguistics, foreign language education can be interpreted as a discipline focusing on the interaction between foreign language and education. It has two main tasks: the study on the role of foreign language in education (and in society) and the study on the education of and through foreign language. The role of foreign language in educational and other social activities in China is the start point, which determines the objective and scope of the theory of the discipline, and also conditions the principle and methodology of its practice. In summary, foreign language education should integrate the education of language skills, language knowledge and disciplinary knowledge, so as to simultaneously fulfil its instrumental and humanistic functions, bring foreign language into full use in educational and social activities, and thus ultimately enable the harmonious development of individual learners, social communities and the country as a whole.

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    Foreign Language Education Studies (FLES): Why It Matters and What It Entails
    LI Min
    2025, 25 (1):  25-33.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.003
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    After nearly a decade of research, Foreign Language Education Studies (FLES) has recently been formally recognized as an independent discipline by China’s Ministry of Education. However, its necessity and distinctiveness still remain unclear to many in the academic community. Building on previous research, this paper further elaborates on the necessity of FLES as a distinct field of research and explores its distinctiveness from two dimensions: the innovation of research perspectives and the transformation of research paradigms. By addressing these issues, the paper aims to advance the theoretical and practical development of FLES.

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    Exploring Pathways for Integrating International Communication Competence and Foreign Language Talent Development
    YANG Lianrui, ZHANG Hui, LIU Xiaolan
    2025, 25 (1):  34-42.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.004
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    The capacity for international communication is a critical indicator of a nation’s soft power, with the cultivation of high-caliber talent serving as the cornerstone of this development. Mastery of foreign languages is indispensable for enhancing international communication, and foreign language majors should aim to produce versatile professionals equipped with a strong sense of national identity, global awareness, and specialized expertise. This paper, grounded in the framework of the New Liberal Arts, proposes the establishment of an innovative talent cultivation platform within foreign language majors to enhance educational efficacy and better support the development of international communication competencies. The platform seeks to integrate resources across institutions and classrooms, providing interdisciplinary and cross-professional knowledge and skills. Its primary focus is on cultivating students’ abilities in critical areas such as comprehension, interpretation, analytical thinking, and innovation. Meanwhile, the platform is distinguished by four core features: broad scope, targeted relevance, adaptability, and a strong emphasis on practical application. It offers foreign language students an innovative environment to reinforce their foundational knowledge while enhancing their capacity to contribute to global communication efforts.

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    The Metaphysical and Dogmatic Phenomena in Foreign Language Teaching in China and Its Treatment
    LI Zhiling, LI Xiaoyi
    2025, 25 (1):  43-52.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.005
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    Since the 1960s, China’s foreign language education has been too closely following the modern linguistics and its development. As a result, it has strayed into a narrowing path of metaphysicalization and dogmatization. Therefore, though China’s foreign language education has made great achievements, a lot of problems have also ensued in its development. To reflect, and rediscover the positive elements of the traditional philological foreign language education, restore the presence of the classics of literature, history, and philosophy in foreign language education, properly handle the relation between linguistics and literature, history and the present, and the relation between China and the western world, and draw on the different schools of postmodern philosophy such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of language,practical philosophy etc. which check and balance metaphysics and dogmatism, is of much importance for China’s foreign language education to walk out of the current self-identity crisis and confusion, and the facelift of the discipline of foreign language education as a whole. Also it is essential for the current discussion and the further reform of foreign language education in China.

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    Never Stop to Advance With The Times:Several Concepts Related to Multimodality and AI
    HU Zhuanglin
    2025, 25 (1):  53-59.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.006
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    During the period of January and April 2024, I successively participated in two national conferences, that is, “National Symposiium on Multimodality and Functional Linguistics” held by Shanghai Tongji University, and “Symposium on Military Application of Multimodality during the AI Era”held by National University of Defence Technology. The two symposiums indicated that the research of multimodality has become one of the key research subjects. This paper is aimed at discussing those topics about the concept of multimodality, such as connotation, contemporality, fusion, chief mode,and fragmentality. Finally, I report some of my research topics concerning multimadalty.

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    Foreign Language Teaching and Professional Development of Foreign Language Teachers in the Era of AI: Challenges, Identity Tensions and Solutions
    XU Yueting, GU Yue
    2025, 25 (1):  60-72.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.007
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    Artificial intelligence (AI) represented by ChatGPT can not only promote learners to learn foreign languages but also improve teachers’ work efficiency and reduce their work burden. However, the educational revolution triggered by ChatGPT brings challenges to foreign language teaching and results in identity tensions to foreign language teachers. By reviewing research on the application of AI in the field of foreign language teaching and language teacher identity, this paper analyses challenges of foreign language teaching and teachers, identity tensions and solutions, and puts forward corresponding suggestions from three aspects, including teachers, schools, and government. This paper not only provides theoretical support and practical guidance for the implementation of AI-assisted teaching in the field of foreign language education but also has enlightenment for other subjects in dealing with teacher identity tensions and exploring the path of deep integration of AI and education.

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    Human-Machine Collaborative Intelligent Writings: Its Evolution and Implications
    LI Jingjie, CHEN Qiuyan
    2025, 25 (1):  73-83.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.008
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    Artificially intelligent writing has become an irreversible trend. This article, from the perspective of human-machine collaboration, provides an assessment and comparison of artificial intelligence writing systems in three stages: the emergence stage of AI writing, the stage of diversified exploration, and the stage of comprehensive development. It analyzes the characteristics and development trends of human-machine collaboration in intelligent writing systems at different stages. Building upon this analysis, it discusses the progress, issues, and implications of human-machine collaborative intelligent writing systems in academic English writing and teaching in terms of the integration of writing assistance and revision assistance, dialogue-based interaction, comprehensive coverage of the writing process, and Man-Computer symbiosis.

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    Investigating College Students’ English Learning Engagement Following the Blended Teaching Mode
    XU Ying, YUAN Jie, HUANG Mengjia, CHEN Jin
    2025, 25 (1):  84-95.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.009
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    Learning engagement is an important indicator to measure learning achievement and teaching effectiveness, however, not much attention has been paid to non-English major students’ learning engagement under the blended teaching mode. To this end, this article aims to examine their engagement with the course of “English for Academic Purposes” under the blended teaching mode by employing questionnaires and semi-structured interviews for data collection. It was found that students’ engagement consists of three dimensions including cognitive, affective and behavioral; their engagement on the cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions are rank-ordered from high to low in terms of the strength; factors relating to students themselves, learning resources and settings, and classroom interpersonal relationship have a significant effect on their engagement. The above findings disclose the multi-faceted and interactive nature of ecological relationship between various factors, and could shed light on the application of blended foreign language teaching in China.

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    On the Dialectics of Constructing the Theory of Transknowletology
    LIU Junping
    2025, 25 (1):  96-111.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.010
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    Professor Yang Feng, the founder of Transknowletology, put forward the proposition that “The fusion of knowledge in science, sociology and humanities will solve the puzzle and problem of classification anxiety for the translation discipline for the time to come. Translatology armed with the knowledge of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities will inevitably become a meta discipline or supra subject”(Yang Feng 2021:2). Proceeding from the insightful statement, we can observe that Transknowletology intends to integrate the resources and refine its key concepts and reformulate its epistemic framework from the above three disciplines based on complex system to construct the meta-knowledge of translatology. Thus, Transknowletology as general translatology will necessarily touch upon the knowledge and ideas of translatology, philosophy, sociology, cognition, hermeneutics. Through analysis and synthesis, construction and refining, it will become a meta-discipline for translation studies embodying both the logical facts and ethic values.If it intends to reach such a goal, Transknowletology must include epistemic concepts, paradigms and epistemic reintegration and reclassification on its road map so as to reformulate its model. On the epistemic structure, it should proceed from the onotology, methodology and teleology of epistemology, attach importance to the dialectics of methodology, integrate East-West epistemology,reorganize the internal and external knowledge of translatology, give weight to humanistic, aesthetic and ethic knowledge. Thus formulated, it will depart from the binary separation of knowledge to the existential and life world experiences. Consequently, it will lessen the tensions between the scientific rationality and humanistic reason. Based on the “ method of harmonious balance of Transknowletology ” and the logic of dialogue, the newly formed branch of learning will perfect its methodology of restructuring its knowledge base and will eventually deal with the ultimate concern of “what is a translator” so as to actualize the “Epistemic Turn” in contemporary Translation Studies.

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    An Investigation into the Description Knowledge and Knowledge Description in the Translation Process from the Perspective of Transknowletology
    DU Shihong, SHI Jinhong
    2025, 25 (1):  112-124.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.011
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    A new discipline is faced with the situations of understanding and misunderstanding. How a correct understanding of transknowletology is achievable? This question is fundamental for transknowletology, which is understandably expected to have both definite theoretical underpinnings and effectively practical guidelines to untranslatable instances. Reflecting on transknowletology, we are led to propose the following viewpoints: in terms of transknowletology, the source text of translation is treated as a collection of knowledge, and the translation practice is a process of fulfilling two tasks: identifying description knowledge and making knowledge description. Accordingly, this study not only exemplifies the theoretical insights but also demonstrates the practical use of transknowletology, based on Russell’s theory of knowledge. This study has obtained the following findings: The meaning of source text is knowledge based; The description knowledge is both propositions of judgment at the deep level and declarative statements of judgment at the surface level; The practical translation process includes two steps: the first is to conduct an inventory of description knowledge contained in the source text, and the second is to provide knowledge description for the need of target text. It is evidenced that certain problems of untranslatabiliy can be solved effectively in the light of transknowletology.

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    Deep Learning and Knowledge Infusion:An Inquiry into Path Construction for a Translation-Technology Teaching Model
    DAI Guangrong, SHEN Siyi, HUANG Dongliang
    2025, 25 (1):  125-138.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.012
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    In the era of Language Intelligence, translation pedagogy ushers into a more diverse and complex landscape, knowledge within this system broadens deeper than ever, but students’ learning didn’t go to depth with the development of technology. The shallow learning-based education model is no longer suitable for the current translation pedagogy and its knowledge translation production and spreading. This paper aims to explore innovative pathways to address the predicament in talent cultivation. With Transknowletology as its core, this paper elucidates the concept, content and scope of deep learning and puts forward the model for translation technology education combined with deep learning and knowledge system. Lastly, this paper attempts to construct an efficient and scientific path of enhancing translation technological thinking skills, in a bid to enhance the knowledge translation development and acceptance.

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    A Probe into the National Consciousness in the Late Qing Dynasty’s Sci-tech Translation
    ZHANG Bisheng, XIE Xingping, XIE Bingxin
    2025, 25 (1):  139-150.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.013
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    The Late Qing Dynasty is a unique historical period, where the mission of translation endows translators with distinctive characteristics of the time. Chinese translators actively translated Western sci-tech classics, expressing new ideas to enlighten the people and also promoting the transformation of Chinese translation practice. This study takes the sci-tech translators of the Late Qing period as the object of investigation to explore their national consciousness in the sci-tech translation. During this era, sci-tech translators, like Li Shanlan, resolutely assumed the responsibility and mission of translating Western sci-tech classics together with western missionaries. In terms of translation purposes, they aimed to introduce advanced Western science and technology through translation to achieve self-improvement. Regarding translation methods, they brought into play the power of missionaries and adopted “Westerner oral interpretation, Chinese written polishing” as a mode of translation to facilitate the integration of Western and Chinese scientific ideas. During the translation process, translators considered both the continuation of existing domestic terminology and the creation of new terms to ensure the sci-tech knowledge transfer. Therefore, the national consciousness is reflected in all aspects of translation practice. Ultimately, the analysis of national consciousness in the Late Qing sci-tech translation yields significant insights. Firstly, the development of the translation industry cannot be separated from high-quality translation talents, and the state should be committed to cultivating sci-tech translation talents with national consciousness. Secondly, translators should grasp the current development situation and fully exert their initiative in translation practice. Lastly, translation studies should be grounded in contemporary realities and integrate related disciplines to construct a knowledge system of translation studies that is relevant to the new era.

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    The Logical Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and Globalization and Its Practical Path: A Marxist Philosophy Perspective
    ZHONG Shuneng, SHI Si
    2025, 25 (1):  151-158.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.014
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    From the perspective of Marxist philosophy, the relationship between cultural diversity and globalization is a complex problem of dialectical unity between the universality and particularity of contradictions, which are different and closely related to each other. With the increasing globalization of economy and information, how to maintain the diversity and uniqueness of culture under the tide of globalization is an urgent problem to be considered. Guided by Marxist world outlook and methodology, this paper attempts to explore the intersection and conflict between different cultural values in contemporary society in the process of cross-cultural communication by analyzing the correlation and contradiction between the two, in order to find an effective way for the harmonious coexistence of various civilizations and the coexistence of beauty and beauty in the era of globalization, and make a preliminary exploration for the sustainable development of cultural diversity.

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    National Consciousness and the US National Reading Program Since World War Ⅱ
    LIU Xiao, GUO Qing
    2025, 25 (1):  159-169.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.015
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    National consciousness is the citizens’ cognition of and identification with their country. It is politically, historically and culturally constructed and is thus deeply rooted in the traditions of the nation state. Taking the national reading program as the starting point to examine its relevance to the national-consciousness oriented discourse practices of other nations in specific historical periods may provide insights from a global perspective on the construction of a national consciousness discourse system in China’s foreign language education. Based on the different facets of national consciousness, this paper investigates the causes and motivations behind the development of a national reading program in the United States after the end of World War II, and analyzes the multiple functions of reading in the specific historical context. The program is further examined in light of its manifestation as a political legacy in the field of reading practice in the post 9·11 era. The paper concludes that the cognitive, psychological and emotional elements inherent in national consciousness are integrated through reading action into relevant educational discourse and practice. In this way, a national reading program derived from the interactions of individual, social and national discourses can play an important role in the shape of national cognition, identity construction and national identification.

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    Three Structural Issues in the Cultivation of Talents in Area Studies and Its ‘T-model’ Solution
    CHEN Jie, BAI Lu
    2025, 25 (1):  170-181.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.016
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    As Area Studies has become formally recognized as a primary discipline within the interdisciplinary academic category, its talent cultivation has gained institutional support. Concurrently, theoretical issues related to this cultivation have emerged as hot topics in academic discussions, receiving priority on research agendas. We identify three critical issues in the cultivation of talent in Area Studies that demand immediate attention: firstly, ‘reconciling instrumental knowledge’ with ‘disciplinary knowledge’; secondly, balancing ‘focus on subject fields’ with ‘focus on geographical areas’; and thirdly, harmonizing Academic Proficiency with Skills Proficiency and Social and Ethical Awareness. The essence of these issues is the coordination between undergraduate education and ‘post-undergraduate’ phases. To address these challenges within a unified framework, we propose a ‘T-model’ for talent cultivation in Area Studies. This model integrates both synchronic and diachronic dimensions, embracing principles of ‘breadth and depth’. It explores a planned, progressive talent cultivation approach, transitioning from a ‘general knowledge orientation’ to a ‘field orientation’, then towards a ‘regional issue orientation’, and ultimately a ‘comprehensive orientation’. This model aims to offer a universally applicable framework for cultivating talents in Area Studies in China, transcending the confines of a single discipline.

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    Composition and Cultivation of Core Competence for Foreign Language-Based Area Studies Professionals
    ZHAI Shilei, LIU Meng
    2025, 25 (1):  182-190.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.017
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    To develop area studies as a discipline has been a consensus in diverse fields, but research about the core competence of area studies talents needs to be furthered. Area studies talents are supposed to combine interdisciplinary theories with international governance. In this regard, the core competence of area studies talents should include some crucial, deciding and fundamental abilities in aspects such as collaboration, intercultural strategic communication, creativity and critical thinking. With such abilities, individual talents are able to research and communicate better. Consequently, the cultivation of area studies talents should synchronize cognitive competence with non-cognitive competence. It is believed this new cultivation pattern could equip integrated talents with a high level of language competence for area studies and international governance.

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    The Inter-disciplinarity of International and Regional Studies: With Views on the Integration of Disciplines of Foreign Languages and World History
    LI La, WANG Yuming
    2025, 25 (1):  191-201.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.01.018
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    On September 14th, 2022, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education issued the Catalogue of Graduate Education Subjects and Specialties (2022) and the Management Measures of the Catalogue of Graduate Education Subjects and Specialties, which officially declared International and Regional Studies to be established as a first-tier discipline under the category of interdisciplinary disciplines. It proves the necessity of integrating this discipline with other related disciplines. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of area studies is mainly embodied in its definition and disciplinary distribution of the researchers involved, which can be concluded by sorting out the definitions made by different scholars at home and abroad, and analyzing the distribution of overseas research disciplines in the projects supported by the National Social Science Fund and the distribution of the humanities and social science projects funded by the Ministry of Education. According to the results, it can also be fourd that two disciplines of Foreign Languages and World History make major contributions to International and Regional Studies. Languages serve as indispensable tools, while the discipline of World History uses languages to study the history of various countries and regions in depth. Thus, it will be highly beneficial for the development of International and Regional studies to combine Foreign Languages Discipline with the discipline of World History through multiple degrees conferring, faculty sharing and building academic communities.

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