A Course Design Model On Cultivating Student Strategic Translation Competence

With the development of translation theory and psychology people's understanding to translation has progressed a lot, especially the merging of psychology or cognition in translation study. In the new theory, translation is considered as a series of psychological activities taken by translators in translation process. They influence translator's understanding and therefore decide his decisions and strategies in translation.Although the new starting has been put forward by some experts, the studies about translation teaching under new research trends are still quite vague. No specific investigation for a certain translation competence in translation teaching has ever been carried out. As for this reason, in present research, IRs and independent t-test in psychological research was applied to the study to understand students'strategy using in translation process and the differences in strategic translation competence among students. Through the experiment, the following results were gotten 1) Translation is a process which involves participants'mental and psychological activities, especially strategies;2) There are great differences in strategic translation competence among students;3) The strategies participants used in the process are various and have correlative relation with translation results. Then a questionnaire was formed to investigate the strategic translation competence in classroom practice and later a course model which combines the nature of psychology and translation essence was formed. In the new course model, student is the center while teacher and other teaching elements are the facilitating factors which help student to translate. Therefore, students'autonomy, their strategic competence and psychological activities become the focus of the course.