Pre-internship in Chinese Translation Education at Undergraduate Level

摘要

Though translation education in China has achieved great leap in recent years, it cannot produce qualified translation talents for translation industry. This is increasingly worsening graduates' employment situation. The very reason lies in the long-time gap between translation education in China and Chinese Translation market or industry. In order to deal with this problem, pre-internship is proposed as a special stage integrated into the present education system at undergraduate level with the very aim to align the translation market needs with the education orientation. This preinternship serves as a ZPD for students to transform from knowledge-orientation to competence-orientation, even to performance orientation according to performance standard required by translation industry. At this stage, the very key is that professional standard can be introduced into the present education to narrow down the gap between today's translation education and translation industry, facilitating the process of empowering student translation service provider.