为适应我国社会主义市场经济的发展和对外开放的需要,全国各外语院校的改革正在进一步深化。外语院校深化改革的一个重要课题是对专业和课程的设置进一步改革,以便使外语人才更好地适应社会主义经济发展的需求。在全国外语院校第七届年会上,各兄弟院校介绍了许多可贵的经验,从各外语院校在这方面的改革实践看,对专业设置改革的基本趋向是改变原来纯外语语言性质的专业,使之成为外语(主要是英语)与某一种特殊学科混成的专业(主要是文科类学科)。对课程设置改革的基本趋向是增开各类其他学科的课程,诸如经济、金融、财会、新闻等等课程。这样做,无疑是正确的。因为:第一,语言本身是一种工具, In order to meet the needs of the development of China’s socialist market economy and opening to the outside world, the reform of all foreign language institutions nationwide is being further deepened. An important issue for deepening reforms in foreign language institutes is to further reform the profession and curriculum so that foreign language talents can better meet the needs of socialist economic development. At the Seventh Annual Conference of Foreign Languages ​​Institutions in China, various fraternal institutions introduced a lot of valuable experiences. From the perspective of reform and practice of foreign language institutes in this field, the basic tendency of the reform of specialized settings is to change the original linguistic nature of purely foreign languages Professional, making it a foreign language (mainly English) and a particular specialty mixed (mainly liberal arts disciplines). The basic tendency of the curriculum reform is to open classes in various other subjects such as economics, finance, accounting, journalism and so on. This is undoubtedly correct. Because: First, the language itself is a tool,