Springer Restructuring Translation Education: Implications from China for the Rest of the World

This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the professional translation market and consequently recognize the insufficiency of translation education and the need for it to be restructured accordingly. Furthermore, the book includes data-based analyses of translation education problems, such as teaching philosophy, curriculum design and faculty development of both undergraduate and postgraduate education in China. More importantly, it proposes solutions that have already been successful in experiments in a number of universities in China for other institutions of higher education to imitate in restructuring translation education. The discussion is of interest for current and future translation policy makers, translation educators, translators and learners. From the Back Cover This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the professional translation market and consequently recognize the insufficiency of translation education and the need for it to be restructured accordingly. Furthermore, the book includes data-based analyses of translation education problems, such as teaching philosophy, curriculum design and faculty development of both undergraduate and postgraduate education in China. More importantly, it proposes solutions that have already been successful in experiments in a number of universities in China for other institutions of higher education to imitate in restructuring translation education. The discussion is of interest for current and future translation policy makers, translation educators, translators and learners. About the Author Feng Yue has been teaching translation at Fujian Normal University since 1992, and has had a 30-year career as a translator for a TV station, various enterprises and publishers. As a teacher, practitioner and researcher of translation, he understands what the market expects of translators. He has been the leader of ten projects concerning the restructuring of translation education, has written more than 70 articles and 25 books, and has received over 40 awards in this field, one of which is the top academic prize conferred by Fujian Provincial Government in 2016. He has been invited by the academic journal Contemporary Foreign Languages Study to chair regular translational seminars participated in by scholars, governmental representatives and managers from enterprises, bridging the gap between universities and enterprises. Youlan Tao is a Professor of Translation Studies, currently teaching at the Department of Translation and Interpreting, College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University. As well as working as a part-time translator and interpreter, she has focused her research on translation pedagogy, applied translation theories, corpus-based translation studies, English teaching strategies and theories, and has published three monographs, five co-authored textbooks, several translated works, and a number of papers in leading national and international academic journals. Funded by the Humboldt Foundation from 2009 to 2011, she was a Visiting Sc