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Cultivating Interdisciplinary Foreign Language Talents Through Interdisciplinary Synergy of On-campus Teaching and Off-campus Practices Under the New Liberal Arts
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Abstract
In the AI era, with big data, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek, single-disciplinary foreign language graduates face declining advantages as AI automates language services, exacerbating employment challenges for the students. Thus, interdisciplinary training of foreign language majors has become quite essential. Although proposed in China for years and advanced by new liberal arts education, existing models fail to effectively integrate theory and practice. Against this back-drop, this article, guided by the principles of the new liberal arts, explores how to cultivate interdisciplinary foreign language talents by constructing a linkage mechanism of on-campus teaching and off-campus practices. This model tightly integrates in-class, knowledge-oriented teaching of foreign languages with other professional fields on campus, after-class project design that merges professional knowledge with societal needs, and off-campus project implementation. Therefore, this “classroom-to-society” approach can strengthen both linguistic skills and cross-disciplinary abilities of the students, offering a practical framework for high-standard foreign language education in the AI-driven era.
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How to cite this paper
Cultivating Interdisciplinary Foreign Language Talents Through Interdisciplinary Synergy of On-campus Teaching and Off-campus Practices Under the New Liberal Arts
How to cite this paper: Minghui Long. (2025). Cultivating Interdisciplinary Foreign Language Talents Through Interdisciplinary Synergy of On-campus Teaching and Off-campus Practices Under the New Liberal Arts. The Educational Review, USA, 9(5), 520-526.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2025.05.007
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