外语系是一支充满活力、欣欣向荣的教学科研团队。自2000年创办以来，我们始终将教学与科研并重，尤为重视教学改革和课程建设的同步发展。现有教职工84人，其中专职教师75人，教授2人，副教授20人，教育部英语专业中青年骨干教师1人，省级优秀教师1人，校级优秀教师2人，青年教师全部具有硕士以上学位，有些正在攻读博士学位。

　　教师中有10人次曾出国留学或进修，教师梯队结构合理，师资力量较强。外语系承担着全校博士研究生、硕士研究生和本科生的繁重教学工作，讲授课程共计达30多门。外语系老师近年来先后获得省级及校级优秀教学成果奖5项，获得省级及校级优秀课程和精品课程3项。在科研方面，外语系老师曾承担各级各类课题22项，发表各类论文近160多篇，出版各类教材及其它相关书籍近60本。外语系拥有功能齐全、配套设施完善的英语阅览室和多媒体语言实验室以及卫星地面接收系统，为教学科研提供了有力的保障。

　　The Foreign Languages Department is a vigorous and thriving team of teaching and scientific research. Ever since its establishment in 2000, it has been attaching equal importance to teaching and scientific research, particularly the simultaneous development of teaching reform and course construction. It now has 84 staff members including 75 full-time teachers, two professors, twenty associate professors, one young and middle-aged backbone English teacher of the Ministry of Education and two university-level excellent teachers. All the young teachers hold a Master’s degree and some are studying for PhD. degree.

　　Ten of the teachers have been abroad for study or further education. The powerful contingent of teachers has a reasonable structure. The Foreign Language Department undertakes tough teaching tasks of PhD. students, MA students and undergraduate students and offers over 30 courses altogether. In recent years, teachers of the Foreign Language Department have successively attained five provincial-level and university-level prizes for excellent teaching achievements and three provincial-level and university-level excellent courses and exquisite courses. In terms of scientific research, teachers of the Foreign Language Department have undertaken 22 various projects of all levels, published over 160 theses and nearly 60 textbooks of different types and other books. The Foreign Language Department has an English reading room, a multimedia language laboratory and a satellite ground receiving system with complete functions and supportive facilities, providing effective guarantee for teaching and scientific research.