(By WANG Guifen & CHEN Heng | School of Foreign Languages)To stay informed about students’ summer internships, safeguard their well-being, and deepen collaboration with partner companies, the School of Foreign Languages recently sent faculty teams to visit students at their internship workplaces—ensuring full delivery of practice-oriented education.

On the afternoon of July 15, Professor Wang Guifen visited Wuhan Language Source Information Consulting Co., Ltd., where several of the School’s students are interning. Sitting down with the interns, Ms. Wang asked about how they were doing in their posts, what challenges and gains they had experienced, and potential troubles like communtings and meals. The interns spoke highly of the company’s support system: The company operates morning and evening shifts, and goes a step further to ease daily-life pressures: night-shift interns can claim their taxi fares home, and all interns receive a meal allowance. Learning students' work center on translating and proofreading professional documents such as Hong Kong IPO filings, financial reports, and corporate circulars of listed companies, Professor Wang offered her views on students' career plannings and translating industry trends. And she encouraged them to sharpen skills through practice and gain real-world experience in financial translation. Professor Wang then met with the company’s internship supervisor to learn about the pre-internship training held for all interns on July 2, and was impressed by company’s progressive, step-by-step training model. The two sides exchanged ideas on better matching tasks to interns’ abilities and strengthening cooperations in student-trainnings.

On July 22, Professor Chen Heng and Professor Cheng Jianshan visited the New Oriental internship base at Optics Valley to see students of the School working there. They toured the offices and teaching service areas where the interns work, getting a first-hand look at their working conditions and chatting with them about how their roles were going and how they feel. Their conversations covered teaching service procedures, communication with students and parents, and ways to build up professional skills. The two teachers also urged the interns to keep safety in mind at all times, follow company rules, and report any problems to the School or their teachers right away. They later held in-depth discussions with the company’s mentors on internship training plans, skills development, and future employment pathways. The company spoke highly of the interns’ diligent attitude and solid professional grounding, and the two sides reached a preliminary consensus on deepening cooperation and creating more hands-on learning opportunities for students.

This series of summer visits brought the School’s care to students on internship and gave the School a clear picture of what different industries expect of young talent, further strengthening School-enterprise communication. Going forward, the School will improve its programs by aligning them with industry needs and optimize the tracking and support system of interships so as to create high-quality platform for students' hands-on learning, deepen the integration of industry and education and creat a win-win for students and corporations.