Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures Curriculum Design
This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts. It provides an in-depth look at six selecte
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Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures
Wan Hu
Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures Curriculum Design in China and the UK
Wan Hu School of Foreign Studies CUFE Beijing, China
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To Maike Oergel An inspiring supervisor and a lady with my lifelong admiration
Preface
Setting the Scene The process of globalisation and the intensified international exchanges in the political, economic and cultural sectors have facilitated the growth of the translation industry worldwide (Tang and Gentzler 2008). This indicates that far more qualified professional translators are needed to ensure the quality of translations and to help the translation profession to meet the challenges posed by the expanding multilingual environment (EMT 2010). Over the last decades, we have also seen an enormous increase in translation programmes around the globe in response to the expansion of the translation industry, including in the UK and China. ‘Such programmes are largely delivered by universities, and increasingly at postgraduate level’ (Schäffner 2012, p. 37). In this context, questions such as what constitutes reasonable curriculum design, appropriate teaching methods and techniques, and realistic criteria for assessment are taken into consideration by the course designers, with the purpose of designing a well-though
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