Teaching Business Translation-A Project-based Approach

摘要

The student-centered project-based (PBL) learning pedagogy fits in well with the objectives of translation training and education, leading to its popularity in China's prosperous translation studies community. However, PBL's requirement of use of authentic translation projects in teaching makes it difficult to be carried out in the Chinese translation classroom. This paper discusses a PBL activity in business translation teaching with already completed authentic translation projects that are provided by off-campus translation training bases (registered specialist translation companies in China). The reports of students' perceptions of PBL learning prove that use of completed authentic projects can be an effective alternative of introducing PBL to translation teaching in the Chinese context and serve as an easy reference for teachers who are interested in trying this methodology but have difficulties in finding a real-world project for students.