On April 24, 2024, XJTU's Graduate School and the School of Foreign Studies (SFS) jointly held the Postgraduate English Small-Class Teacher Training and Workshop at the Shall Building on Xingqing Campus.

The workshop was presided over by Zhang Chang’an, Secretary of the SFS Party Committee. Associate Professor Feng Guangyi, Director of SFS's Postgraduate English Teaching Center, introduced methods for general English small-class teaching. Professor Lv Shemin from the Health Science Center, Professor Chen Xuejiang from the School of Energy and Power Engineering, and Professor Meng Fanrong from the School of Public Policy and Administration shared their experience in teaching English for specific purposes. Professor Wang Xinhong, head of the Postgraduate Teaching and Research Supervision Commission and teachers from 20 schools attended the workshop.

Long Jiangang, vice director of XJTU's Graduate School, pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to a diversified teaching mode and strengthen exchanges between different universities and different schools, and teachers should leverage AI technologies for teaching and guide students in their application. Long also said that the Graduate School will provide continuous support for innovative teaching activities.

The XJTU postgraduate English small-class teaching reform was launched in 2018. The past 6 years have seen the formation of a new teaching mode characterized by practice orientation, deep integration of English teaching and scientific research, the combination of in-and-after class teaching & online-offline learning, which has significantly improved the teaching quality and effectively enhanced postgraduate students' academic English proficiency and their sense of gain in learning, thus providing a successful model for postgraduate English teaching in China.