On the afternoon of May 29, the SFL held the forum on enhancing graduate education quality within the context of foreign language disciplines in Room 7-210, Binhai Campus. The forum was chaired by Vice Dean Wang Ying, and all graduate program supervisors attended the training session.

The training aimed to fulfill the fundamental mission of cultivating virtue in education and to promote the connotative development of graduate education. In her opening remarks, Wang Ying emphasized that as the primary responsible parties for graduate training, supervisors must fully understand the new national and institutional requirements for graduate education and continuously improve both the quality of training and their mentoring capabilities. She stressed the importance of adopting a student-centered and quality-focused approach to further refine the graduate education system. She advised that academic planning should begin early, with research topics identified in advance. Only by establishing clear research directions and mastering scientific research methodologies can students avoid detours in their academic journey and achieve efficient scholarly output. At the same time, she noted that research topics should be carefully selected, integrating academic frontiers with practical needs to lay a solid foundation for high-quality thesis writing.

The training forum focused on the theme of how to enhance graduate students’research competence and academic literacy within the context of foreign language disciplines. Supervisors actively exchanged effective practices in course instruction, thesis guidance, and international exchange, drawing on their mentoring experience and the characteristics of the discipline, and put forward numerous constructive suggestions. Participants unanimously agreed that a first lesson upon enrollment should be offered at the beginning of the program to help graduate students develop strong ethical values—learning “how to be a person” before learning “how to conduct research”.

This mentor training forum has established a valuable platform for strengthening the SFL’s quality assurance mechanisms in graduate education and enhancing supervisors’ mentoring effectiveness. The SFL will continue to optimize its training mechanisms, advance the high-quality development of graduate education, and contribute the strength of foreign language disciplines to building a high-level research-oriented university.