CET Translation Reform And College English Translation Teaching

College English Test (abbreviated as CET) is one of the largest language tests inChina. Its purpose is to measure Chinese college students’ comprehensive ability inEnglish and plays a positive role to achieve the goal of college English curriculum.Since its birth CET has been reformed in scoring system, score reporting, test contentand test questions, especially the reform of translation. This will enhance collegeEnglish translation teaching which has been ignored for a long time.The thesis analyzes the factors which influence the college English translationteaching under the translation reform background. The factors include students,teachers, textbooks and environment. The factors of students include cognition oftranslation teaching, foreign language learning foundation and attitudes and methods.The factors of teachers include cognition of translation teaching, professionalqualifications and teaching methods. Environment includes social environment andschool environment. The thesis gives corresponding suggestions from the followingfive aspects: research on the college English translation teaching should bestrengthened so the teaching objective can be clear; materials of college Englishtranslation teaching should be compiled in accordance with requirements of the time;continuing education for teachers should be enhanced and professional developmentof teachers should be promoted; methods in college English translation teachingshould be improved; teaching evaluation and feedback system should be bettered. Consequently a course model which combines the nature of psychology andtranslation essence was formed. In the new course model, student is the centerwhile teacher and other teaching elements are the facilitating factorswhich help student to translate. Therefore, students’ autonomy, their strategiccompetence and psychological activities become the focus of the course.