Investigating the Use of Translation Continuation Tasks in Commercial Translation Teaching: A Study on Translating User Manuals

Autor:	Lijun Deng, Qi Xu
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Continuation Computer science business.industry Artificial intelligence Translation (geometry) computer.software_genre business computer Language and Linguistics Natural language processing
Zdroj:	Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. 44:366-381
ISSN:	2192-9513 2192-9505
DOI:	10.1515/cjal-2021-0023
Popis:	Based on the xu-argument, this study investigated the use of translation continuation tasks in commercial translation instruction. Forty-four second-year Business English majors at a Chinese university participated in the study. They were divided into equal-sized control and experimental groups. Members of the experimental group were asked to read Chinese-English parallel texts from a user manual, while those of the control group were asked to read the Chinese text only. Subsequently, both groups were required to translate the continued Chinese text into English. The results indicated the following: 1) the experimental group’s translated text was of significantly higher quality than that of the control group; and 2) the experimental group’s translations were well-aligned with the original text in their use of terminology, sentence structure, and stylistic features. The study concludes by suggesting that translation continuation tasks can improve commercial translation instruction and hence should be further applied in practice.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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