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National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Strategising foreign language education in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2012

Yongqi Gu
Yongqi Gu*
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealandpeter.gu@vuw.ac.nz
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The National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education (NRCFLE) attached to Beijing Foreign Studies University (www.sinotefl.ac.cn/) is a key research institute in the humanities and social sciences in universities approved by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China. It was formally set up and approved in September 2000. After a decade of dedicated hard work, the centre has become an applied linguistics hub of research and training unrivalled in China, and co-hosted AILA2011, the 16th World Congress in Applied Linguistics in August 2011. The current director of the centre, WEN Qiufang, currently presides over the China English Language Education Association, another co-host of AILA2011. The centre publishes two journals, one of them, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, being pre-eminent in the field in every key journal index in China, as well as being the only journal in applied linguistics and foreign language education to feature in the MOE's 2010 Distinguished Journals in Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Research in Progress
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Language Teaching , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 263 - 267
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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