The Study of Chinese English Major’s Current Situation of Selecting and Learning SFL Courses and Its Influencing Factors

The urgent need of multilingual talents and the requirements of the education policies promote more universities in China to start offering second foreign language courses to English majors. Using the questionnaire as the research instrument and involving 126 English major students from a university in Shanghai as the research subjects, this study intends to explore the current situation of selecting and learning second foreign language (SFL) courses as well as the relevant influencing factors. Findings reveal that so far Japanese and French are more popular among the course selection and learning SFL courses helps improve students’ proficiency in SFL, enhancing their overall SFL proficiency and even intercultural communication skills. Meanwhile, the factors influencing SFL learning situation mainly consist of students' interests, occupational development, language difficulty and usage extent.