Abstract
This paper mainly uses the methods of questionnaire and qualitative analysis. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the last and current English majors. Mainly to understand their translation practice in school, including their attitude towards translation practice, the teaching mode of translation course, the time spent in translation practice after class and the main fields involved, and whether the school has provided translation practice platform and its practicability. The survey of 240 English majors reflects the present situation of English Majors in translation practice: 1) Strong willingness to translate; 2) Lack of practice in class; 3) Lack of extracurricular practice; 4) Lack of translation practice platform. To solve the problems in the translation practice of English majors analyzed by the survey results, this paper puts forward some countermeasures: including establishing a translation practice platform within the University, encouraging translation volunteer activities and building a cooperative translation mechanism between the University and the enterprise.
Highlights
With the increase of national communication in economy, culture, politics and education, the demand for English translation market is increasing
To solve the problems in the translation practice of English majors analyzed by the survey results, this paper puts forward some countermeasures: including establishing a translation practice platform within the University, encouraging translation volunteer activities and building a cooperative translation mechanism between the University and the enterprise
At the undergraduate learning stage, translation course is a core course for English majors, which plays an important role in the comprehensive training of bilingual and cross-cultural abilities
Summary
With the increase of national communication in economy, culture, politics and education, the demand for English translation market is increasing. This study takes English majors as the research object, combines the idea of practical education and explores the current situation of students’ English translation practice through questionnaire survey. Most of the scholars at home and abroad have studied the strategies to promote translation practice, and some of them have carried out empirical research on the current situation of translation practice. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasible countermeasures to promote the translation practice of English majors, to improve the students’ translation practice ability, and to train the students into the application-oriented compound translation talents, so as to meet the actual needs of the economic development of our country for the translation talents. The second chapter briefly describes the current situation and trend of translation courses and translation practice at home and abroad, as well as the main research direction of this paper. It can promote the economic development related to translation
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