Becoming a Translator

Robinson, Douglas

doi:10.4324/9780429276606

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“…The data from this study shows that there is an increasing awareness and increased significance for both students and teachers on virtual learning particularly during the pandemic. The study confirms the finding that it can become agonizing even though attempts have been drew up to communicate with students by using various online learning tools (Robinson, 2019). In the notification to teachers engage students online hands-on sessions while isolation seemed hard as it involved a formal training of the entire process before the students, one challenging problem was added.…”

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Higher Education in China, a Paradigm Shift from Conventional to Online Teaching

Wang¹,

Wei²

2021

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The entire education system, from elementary school to higher education, distorted during the lockdown period. The latest 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is not only recorded in China, but also globally. This research is an account of the online teaching paradigm assumed in the teaching method by most of universities in China and subsequent tests over the course. It looks forward to offering resources rich in knowledge for future academic decision-making in any adversity. The aim of this research paper is to explain the prerequisites for online education and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic and how to effectively turn formal education into online education through the use of virtual classrooms and other main online instruments in an ever-changing educational setting by leveraging existing educational tools. The paper uses both quantitative and qualitative research approaches to analyses the views of online teachers and students on the learning regime, with specific attention to the online learning regime implementation process. In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, the purpose of this article is to provide an in-depth overview of online learning. These activities took place during a time of isolation, including the creation of a link between the process of change management and the online learning process in the education system to tackle current issues of academic interference and, however, the re-establishment of educational practice and debate as a normal system of procedural education.

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Higher Education in China, a Paradigm Shift from Conventional to Online Teaching

Wang¹,

Wei²

2021

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“…Translator do not simply translate word by word without considering its meaning. As Robinson (1997) stated in the translation Charles Dickens, native speakers still can enjoy his works as they read the source language because its translation is translated based on the place and time of the later generation. It means the translator translated some specific words that may not be understood by the current generation, as this literary work written in old English, so he/she tried to find the words which were equivalent and understandable to young generation.…”

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“…People need to be aware of cultural differences and how its complexity may influence translation product. (see Robinson, 1997;Snell-Hornby, 1988) It is clear that a translator has to consider about this circumstance since this aspect will determine whether he or she will become a successful or fail translator. Therefore, providing their selves with cultural knowledge will ultimately become demand that should be fulfilled by a translator.…”

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Translation Study: How Crucial Is Cultural Knowledge for Students as the Translators?

Djamereng

Rusni

2018

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This article intends to discuss the importance of teaching cultural knowledge for EFL students in translating text. Translation process is not simply translate word by word but it should also transfer culture together with its language. Since language is a part of culture so both of them always are interrelated each other. Commonly, it will become teacher’ tasks to take his role in translation study, introducing cultural knowledge as part of translation material in lesson plan. The circumstance that students as translator only translate text literally because of their lack of cultural knowledge, therefore they should be enriched with knowledge related to the language and culture. Finally, the crucial factors in translation such as language competence is absolutely needed, the usefulness of cultural competence also act as important as language competence does.

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“…The main categories of the concept of cross-cultural dialogue are "culture-identity-dialogue-textunderstanding" [1]. In this regard, translation has also been regarded as a cultural phenomenon as it crosses not only the borders of languages, but also the boundaries of cultures, and the translated text is transposed not only into another language system, but also into a different cultural system [2][3][4], which allows us to treat translation as a type of cross-cultural speech act [5,6].…”

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Cross-Cultural Literary Translation Teaching in Course of “Home Reading”

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The paper concerns teaching literary translation as a type of cross-cultural speech act in the system of translators’ professional training and integrated into the course of “Home Reading”.The authors believe that all disciplines that comprise translators’ professional training should be profession-oriented, equipping the students with skills and competences necessary for effective cross-cultural mediation, thus contributing to the formation of a cross-cultural component of the translator’s competence. A hierarchy of tasks and assignments is presented in accordance with the three-stage structure of the translation process (pre-translation, translation, and post-translation stages).The results and efficiency of the proposed method, tested in the course of a 17-years long experimental teaching, is described.

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Becoming a Translator

Cited by 68 publications

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Higher Education in China, a Paradigm Shift from Conventional to Online Teaching

Higher Education in China, a Paradigm Shift from Conventional to Online Teaching

Translation Study: How Crucial Is Cultural Knowledge for Students as the Translators?

Cross-Cultural Literary Translation Teaching in Course of “Home Reading”

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