English Language Teaching for Postgraduates
  The Division of English Language Teaching for Postgraduates shoulders the responsibility of teaching language learning courses for about 3, 000 non-English major postgraduates and doctoral students of the whole university every year. Among its 14 staff members, 7 are associate professors, 2 have doctor’s degrees and 8 have 3-month, 6-month or one–year experiences in the English-speaking countries.

     Besides fulfilling the daily teaching tasks, the division has been devoted to teaching reform and academic research. We have successfully undertaken the reform projects funded by the Association of the Degree and Postgraduate Education in China and the Association of English Teaching Research to Postgraduate Students in Beijing. The model of English teaching for postgraduates in Beijing Jiaotong University has greatly improved thanks to the exploration and commitment of our faculty members in conducting these research projects. The division embraces the language teaching principle of cultivating students’ abilities of language use and their initiatives of independent study by combining in-class and extracurricular activities in a reasonable way. This teaching principle has gained the recognition of the participants of the annual seminar on English Teaching for Postgraduates in Beijing hosted by BJTU in 2006.