Exploring Strategies for Contemporary College Students to Improve English Translation of Classical Texts: A Case Study of “The Analects of Confucius”
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translation teaching, college student, English translation of classical texts, “The Analects of Confucius”
Abstract
During the process of global integration and cultural interaction, translation, serving as an indispensable bridge fir cross-cultural communication, has evolved from a mere linguistic conversion tool to a core driver of cultural mutual understanding. For College students, who are the backbone of future cultural communication, their competence in English translation of classical texts directly bears on the efficiency and effect of future’s cultural exchange, playing an important part in boosting the influence of international communication. This article explores strategies for improving contemporary college students’ competence in translating Chinese classics into English from a full-chain perspective and through cases study. With three dimensions of enhancing construction of source language culture, strengthening skills training and cultivating the competence of cross-culture communication, this paper summarize a feasible and operable teaching system which can be carried out and few core teaching strategies such as the four dimensional improvement method of “theoretical construction-case appreciation-practical exercise-comparative reflection” have been explored.
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