The Graduate Foreign Language Teaching Department is responsible for the teaching of public English for doctoral students of non-foreign language majors, as well as full-time and part-time academic and professional masters. It is an important part of the university’s cultivation of high-level and international talents. This department now has 21 teachers, including 3 professors, 6 associate professors and 12 lecturers. Among them, 3 teachers have won prizes in the National English Teaching Competition and 7 teachers have won prizes in the provincial English Teaching Competition.

Since 2018, the School of Foreign Languages of Yunnan Agricultural University has implemented teaching reform of English for postgraduates from general English to academic English. By September 2020, the teaching target has reached 1402 students involving 2018 and 2019 masters. The course lasts 54 class hours in one semester, the first semester of the first grade. Curriculum teaching starts from two aspects, that is, to further academic achievements and develop the ability of scientific research. And it focus on one teaching goal — “to train students' ability to search and read the literature, to improve their ability to cite references for their own point of view and ability to convey information” , and it also holds a teaching concept of students-centered , practice-oriented and cultivating students’ independent learning ability. Guided by the theory of “Input, Interaction and Output model”, the teaching process is mainly based on productive task-driven teaching method, focusing on improving students’ professional English knowledge level, skills and academic research ability, so as to enhance their international academic communication ability and competitiveness. At the end of the semester, a university-scale postgraduate Academic English Competition will be held to provide a platform for students to practice. To a large extent, it has solved the problem of teachers’ reluctance to teach and students’ reluctance to learn, greatly stimulated teachers’ enthusiasm for teaching and students' enthusiasm for learning, and received good teaching achievements.