外语系承担了全校学院（系）学生的外语教学任务，其中包括英语专业，专科，以及职业技术学院。由于学院层面的大力支持，外语系始终不遗余力地通过各种渠道致力于师资发展——广纳贤才招聘教授和副教授，同时，积极鼓励在职教师攻读硕士或博士学位。现外语系在师资结构和师资力量改革上所做出的努力已卓有成效，从而，为外语学科建设的快速发展打下了坚实的基础。
外语系现共有教职工80名，其中专任教师73名，有正教授3名，副教授10名，讲师54名。教师中现有博士1名，在读博士生4名，硕士54名，硕博比例75.3%。专任教师中有32人曾就学于美国、英国、澳大利亚等国的著名高校或具有访问进修经历。此外，有3名教师兼任校外硕士生导师。
外语系设英语和德语两个专业。英语专业已向社会输送三届毕业生，德语专业于今年九月迎来第一批学生。目前，注册学生人数达345人，其中1人为日本留学生。 同时，英语专业分“国际贸易和国际会议会务”两个专业方向。 外语系按照“精外语、重人文、懂方向”的要求，培养学生既有扎实的英语语言基础，广博的文化知识，熟练而得体的语言交际能力，又掌握相关专业方向知识，其最终目标是培养具有国际视野并能胜任国际经贸、国际会议会务、外事、教育、文化等领域工作的高级应用型外语人才。事实上，教职员工的不懈努力已经卓有成效，几年来外语系的学生表现出色。2名英语专业学生相继在“华澳杯”英语大赛中获得一等奖和特等奖。英语专业的学生连续两年3人获得全国大学生英语竞赛一等奖。 此外，外语系学生以他们在上海举行的残奥会上的出色服务和无私奉献，为学校赢得了荣誉。中央电视台，上海电视台和上海东方卫视均有报道。
近年来，与教学方法和教学模式改革相关的科研活动方兴未艾。已有将近百篇论文发表在国内外的核心期刊上,足显盛景。2008年起，上海应用技术学院将外语系列入“重点学科”建设，这将更有力地加快教改步伐。在我院上海市教委组织的本科教学高地试点项目中，外语系在此领域取得了长足的进步，在海外期刊上发表了多篇论文，特别是会同意大利米兰理工大学经管学院的教授合作，共同出版了《中国会展经济发展报告（2006-2007）》、《中国会展经济发展报告（2007-2008）》，它们都是中国社会科学院出版的《会展经济发展蓝皮书》。
The Department of Foreign Languages,
Shanghai Institute of Technology
The Department of Foreign Languages undertakes the teaching activities for all
undergraduate students, including those in English Major program, junior college as well as
vocational college. Thanks to the substantial aid from the Institute level, the Department
has been making unswerving efforts in its staff development in various ways—recruiting
talented personnel like professors or associate professors and encouraging our full-time
teachers to pursue the graduate program of Master’s Degree and/or Doctorate Degree. All
these efforts have already brought about significant changes both in terms of the general
structure of teachers and in terms of their academic proficiency and teaching capability,
thus laying groundwork for the rapid development of the discipline of foreign languages in
SIT in the days to come.
At present, the registered teachers and staff members working in the Department of Foreign
Languages number 80, among whom 73 are teachers with 3 holding the academic title of full
professors, 10 associate professors and 48 lecturers. In addition, among all these
teachers, there is 1 young teacher who has already been awarded doctorate degree, 4
teachers who are now doctorate candidates and 54 teachers who have acquired the degree of
Master of Arts. Thus, those with doctorate and master’s degrees account for 75.3 percent
among all the teachers in the Department. What is to be specially mentioned is that
altogether 32 teachers have had the experiences of visiting or studying in tertiary schools
in such English-speaking countries as the United States of America, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, among others. Besides, 3 teachers have been
invited by a tertiary school in Shanghai to join the graduate program as supervisors.
The Department of Foreign Languages offers undergraduate programs for both English and
German. The former has already had three batches of graduate students whereas the latter
enrolled the first group of students in September 2008. At present, the total number of
registered students reaches 345 with one student from Japan. Currently, the English Major
Program provides two orientations for expertise development, namely “International Trade”
and “International Convention and Its Management”. By closely following the general
requirements— “having a good command of foreign languages, attaching much importance to
humanity and acquiring general knowledge of professional orientations”, the teachers in
the Department of Foreign Languages have been making determined efforts to develop their
students who have laid a solid foundation of English knowledge and skills, acquired an
extensive and profound understanding of cultural knowledge, and displayed the desired
ability to communicate both fluently and appropriately and become familiar with what is
required in the orientations. Our ultimate aim of education for both English and German
Major Programs can be described as training some advanced application-oriented personnel
who are fully able to cast their eyes over the horizons and who will become better
established in ‘international trade, the management in international conventions,
exhibitions and events, foreign affairs, education at both secondary and tertiary levels
and in other fields where the good command of English will have a role to play. The
unremitting efforts made by teachers and staff members of the Department of Foreign
Languages have already been rewarded by excellent performances of the students in the past
years. Two students from English Major Program have won the “Grand Prize”, “Gold Prize”
respectively in “China-Australia Friendship English Contest (East China)” for two
straight years, “First Prize” for English major contestants in NECCS has been granted to
three person times for the past two consecutive years. Besides, students from the
Department of Foreign Languages have also won the honor for SIT with their excellent
service and admirable contribution to the Special Olympic Games held in Shanghai. CCTV, STV
and OTV have reported the work by students from our Department during Special Olympic Games
and exhibitions in Shanghai.
The recent years have also witnessed the active and thorough implementation of reform in
teaching and performing projects in scientific research with approximately 100 papers
published in core journals both at home and abroad, thus making significant headway in this
regard. Starting from the year of 2008, the Department of Foreign Languages has been
entitled to the construction of “Key Discipline” at SIT, which greatly facilitates even
more rapid progress in its development. Besides, as one of the key participants in Pilot
Program for Excellent Undergraduate Program by Shanghai Municipal Educational Commission,
the Department of Foreign Languages has achieved a lot—carrying out joint research with
professors from Business College, Politecnico di Milano, co-publishing “The Report on
Development of China’s Convention & Exhibition Economy (2006-2007)” , and “The Report on
Development of China’s Convention & Exhibition Economy (2007-2008)”, both of which are “
Blue Book of Convention & Exhibition Economy” by ‘Social Sciences Academic Press (China)
’and also publishing articles in overseas journals.
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