A Study of Blended Teaching Practice of Business Interpreting Based on Objective Problem Orientation

Abstract

Aiming to help cultivate students’ independent thinking and problem-solving ability, in accordance with the current situation and characteristics of Business Interpreting teaching in China, this paper proposes a blended online and offline teaching mode of Business Interpreting based on “objective problem orientation” with the help of the MOOC platform. Combined with scientific and reasonable formative assessment in teaching according to their aptitude, students are motivated to make full use of fragmented time to improve the efficiency of online and offline learning. Through pushing, discussing and solving five types of objective problems before class, in class and after class, students are asked to make more self-evaluation, peer evaluation on their simulating interpreting practice and teachers give more constructive advice in class and after class to help students further improve their practical interpreting skills. The results of the teaching experiment and the course satisfaction survey show that the proposed teaching mode can help to improve students’ interpreting skills, practical ability and the ability to solve cross-cultural problems, which provides an effective experimental reference for the future course enhancement of Business Interpreting. It is hoped that this mode can also provide a new perspective for the development and research of interpreting teaching in the post-epidemic era.