大学生地方文化英语表达力的实证研究

A Survey on Undergraduates' Translation Competence of Local Culture

良好的本土文化英语表达能力对于对外推广地方文化,将各地潜在的文化资源优势转化为促进经济发展的现实优势具有重要意义。本文描述了对大学生地方文化英语表达能力进行的一项实证研究。通过地方文化资源翻译能力和阐释能力两部分的测评发现:就整体而言,目前大学生的地方文化英语表达能力普遍偏低,但个体之间差异不大;按院校类别所做的进一步测评显示,重点院校和外语院校英语专业的学生在地方文化英语表达力方面均优于普通院校英语专业学生和各类院校的非英语专业学生。

Adequate translation competence of local culture will contribute to the promotion of local culture to the outside world,thus helping to convert the potential cultural resources into actual local advantages.This paper reports an experimental research on undergraduates＇ translation competence of local cultural resources.Two independent but correlated tests were designed and administered.Subsequent translation quality assessment and statistic analyses reveal that current undergraduates have a poor degree of local culture translation competence and that there is very small difference among each individual.The study also finds that English majors in both key universities and foreign language schools possess better local culture translation competence than those in ordinary schools.