Construction and Application of a Corpus-based Teaching Platform for English Translation of Chinese Classics

The course of English translation of Chinese classics is an important cultural course for undergraduate and postgraduate translation majors. It is an important way to train cultural translation talents and promote the strategy of “Chinese culture going global”. The translation of Chinese classics involves transfers between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese and between Chinese and English languages, which adds difficulty to teachers and students in their understanding and expression and leads to their demand for plentiful professional reference materials. However, paper textbooks are very limited in content capacity and thus unable to satisfy teachers’ and students’ special demand for reference materials in translating Chinese classics. Bilingual parallel corpus in this area can better solve the problems existing in the teaching of English translation of Chinese classics at present, due to its advantages of large corpus size, authentic translation examples, fast retrieval and convenience in autonomous learning, etc. Based on the special demand of teaching in the English translation of Chinese classics, this study discusses how to build a corpus-based teaching platform for this course, and apply it to the complete teaching steps of pre-class preparation, in-class teaching, and after-class consolidation, as well as evaluation to the students, so as to cultivate cultural translation talents with sufficient competence in translation, technology application, and autonomous learning.