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An Empirical Study of Chinese-English Translational Thinking While Doing CET-4 Translations

Xiaohui Wang, Weiping Ye

Abstract


Sixty undergraduates participated in a special test of this study, which was entitled a paragraph in the Chinese-English translation of CET4. Their texts of translations, together with their answers to a post-test questionnaire, have been collected and analyzed from the perspective of translational thinking. The focus of this study is placed on the mental activities of the 60 undergraduates when they tried hard to translate texts about Chinese culture into English with a view to revealing some characteristics of C-E translational thinking in the 60 student translators when they grappled with words and sentences with distinct Chinese cultural denotations and to generate on the basis of those revelations some suggestions which may help English teachers to train college students to improve their quality of C-E translation and overcome fear when doing CET-4 translations.

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Translational thinking; C-E translation in CET-4; C-E translation teaching; Empirical study

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i17.5469

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