Investigating the Use of Translation Continuation Tasks in Commercial Translation Teaching: A Study on Translating User Manuals

Based on the xu-argument, this study investigated the use of translation continuation tasks in commercial translation instruction. Forty-four second-year Business English majors at a Chinese university participated in the study. They were divided into equal-sized control and experimental groups. Members of the experimental group were asked to read Chinese-English parallel texts from a user manual, while those of the control group were asked to read the Chinese text only.Subsequently, both groups were required to translate the continued Chinese text into English. The results indicated the following: 1) the experimental group’s translated text was of significantly higher quality than that of the control group;and 2) the experimental group’s translations were well-aligned with the original text in their use of terminology, sentence structure, and stylistic features. The study concludes by suggesting that translation continuation tasks can improve commercial translation instruction and hence should be further applied in practice.

如何培养小学语文的课外阅读能力

阅读是现代公民获取信息、应对挑战最基本的生存能力，是提高公民整体素质、振兴国家和民族的有效途径之一。小学语文阅读教学肩负着培养和提高阅读能力的重要任务。新课程标准中的大语文观要求教师要树立现代阅读的教学理念，在抓好课内阅读指导的同时要努力构建课内外联系、校内外沟通、学科问融合的语文教育体系。课外阅读作为课内阅读教学的继续和补充，它是拓宽语文学习内容和形式，使学生在广阔的空间里学语文、用语文，丰富知识，提高能力的重要渠道之一。