The department was originally called "​​Department of Language and Literacy Education", and was established on August 1 1987, to nurture small  language teaching and language teacher professional competence for the purpose .

     On August 1 2006, with the school development plan, considering whole educational environment and social national manpower needs , restructuring non- Department of Teacher Education , changed its name to "​​Department of Chinese Language and Literature " to train Chinese professionals for the purpose of setting up.