Restructuring Translation Education: Implications from China for the Rest of the World

Description

This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the professional translation market and consequently recognize the insufficiency of translation education and the need for it to be restructured accordingly. Furthermore, the book includes data-based analyses of translation education problems, such as teaching philosophy, curriculum design and faculty development of both undergraduate and postgraduate education in China. More importantly, it proposes solutions that have already been successful in experiments in a number of universities in China for other institutions of higher education to imitate in restructuring translation education. The discussion is of interest for current and future translation policy makers, translation educators, translators and learners. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Evolution of the Global Language Service Market (Huashu Wang)....Pages 3-12 The Development of Translation Technology in the Era of Big Data (Huashu Wang)....Pages 13-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Problems and Solutions: The Undergraduate Translator Education in Chinese Mainland (Youlan Tao)....Pages 29-40 MTI Programs: Teaching and Learning (Qiliang Cui)....Pages 41-54 MTI Programs: Employment Investigation (Qiliang Cui)....Pages 55-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Translation and Typesetting for Publishers (Bin Xu)....Pages 71-89 Liberal Education for Undergraduate Translation and Interpreting Programmes: From Ideas to Practice (Weiqing Xiao, Xinru Ding)....Pages 91-107 Translation of Public Opinion Updates (Wenqiao Xiu)....Pages 109-124 Translation Education Based on Interorganizational Collaboration (Huiyu Zhang, Kai Xu, Qiliang Cui)....Pages 125-133 Exploring a New Pattern of Translation Curriculum: A Learner-Centered FIST Program (Youlan Tao, Yu Xie)....Pages 135-144 Technical Writing as a Supplement (Youlan Tao, Min Xie)....Pages 145-156 Online Practicum of Specialized Translation (Feng Yue, Shisong Lin)....Pages 157-164