服务学习与口译教学创新

A new teaching approach for interpreting:service-learning and value education

基于服务学习的基本理念,将服务学习作为课程思政的实现方式引入口译教学实践,带领学生参与服务学习项目,按照服务学习的流程,结合口译实践的要求进行译前准备、译中提供服务、译后反思。通过两个教学实例讨论服务学习理念在口译教学中的应用。有效的口译服务学习有利于提高学生的实际翻译能力、沟通交际能力以及批判性思维能力,全面提高口译学习的效果。同时,口译服务学习能将课程思政融入口译教学实践,鼓励学生利用专业知识服务社会,学以致用的同时有效培养学生公民意识,加强学校与社区的互动,实现多赢。

Service-learning is a new paradigm in the pedagogical reforms in higher education.Since interpretation is a lan-g uage service,the teaching of interpreting needs to be service-oriented by nature.Therefore,the model of service learning c ould be adopted in the interpreting course design.The author explains the rationale of the innovative approach in the interpreting training to incorporate the service elements.Value education can be one of the most important benefits of service learning,together with other improvements for the students,such as interpersonal communication skills and critical thinking etc.It is believed that this new model could be an effective way of learning for students while it promotes interactions between universities and the local community.