Faced with the rapid changing global trade, it is urgent for higher education in China to carry out interdisciplinary teaching and to construct equivalent core competencies for students. This article aims to explore the core competencies of foreign language learners in application-oriented universities which focusing on finance and economics fields, and to construct a frame of four-tier core competencies: language proficiency, key competencies, interdisciplinary integration, and expanded competencies. This framework emphasizes that interdisciplinary foreign language education in application-oriented institution should prioritize industry needs and do problem-solving in the interdisciplinary integration, to develop talents in structured pathways.

Xuezhen Chen. Constructing Core Competencies for Foreign Language Majors in Application-oriented Universities of Finance and Economics: Exploring Pathways for Interdisciplinary Integration. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 12: 25-30. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.061204.

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