On the morning of March 27, Professor Ros Mitchell (Director of Department of Modern Languages and Research Center of Applied Linguistics in University of Southampton), Mr. Christopher Sinclair (Deputy Director of Language Research Center in University of Southampton) and Dr. Lu Rugang visited our college. Huang Guanhua (Office Director of The International College), Chen Jianru (Project Secretary) and Xie Yinping, Li li, Lin Yingting and Chen Xueying from English teaching team welcomed them in the conference room of Oversea Education College of Xiamen University.

During the meeting, Director Huang Guanhua gave an introduction about the current college-running situation and suggested that the language research center of University of Southampton would consider setting up a language training center at The International College. Deputy Director Chris showed a great interest in this suggestion and said that the training center could take National Taiwan University as an example and give training and tutorial to the students planning to receive education in University of Southampton.

Both sides also discussed issues like sending exchange students every year and hoped further cooperation in English teaching could be developed.