Initial Step of Normalization of Foreign Language Education in People's Army——Centered on Yan'an Foreign Language School
During the middle period of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,in order to ally with the USSR and US to build an international anti-fascist united front and to prepare cadres with foreign language com-petence for the construction of new China,the Communist Party of China and the CPC-led armed forces began to have nor-malized foreign language education on the basis of the existing crash foreign language training mode,starting to cultivate more high-level military and political talents in translation and interpretation.Yan'an Foreign Language School of the CPC Central Military Commission was soon founded.It was the first regular foreign language school for the People's Army.It had the largest size and longest academic schedule among the CPC foreign language training organizations of that time,with Russian and English as its training languages.The school gradually established a relatively standardized foreign language teaching system with essential ingredients such as guiding principles for school running,organization and management,teaching staff,teach-ing contents,textbook compilation,teaching methods and schooling conditions.It opened up a standardized way for PLA for-eign language education,and trained a number of professional talents for new China's various construction fields and for the PLA.It also played an important role in laying the foundation for the development of foreign language education of the PRC.
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