| With the standardization and specialization of global language service industry inrecent years, the demand for high quality translation service is growing rapidly. Tomeet such demands, a lot of translation companies employ translation projectmanagement approach to increase the quality and efficiency of their services.However, translation researchers do not show much interest in project managementacademically, which means there is a gap between theory and practice.This study tries to test the feasibility and effects of project management approachin website translation. In the experiment, ten participants were selected and randomlyseparated into one control group and one experimental group (each group with fiveparticipants). The two groups were asked to finish the same translation task: totranslate the contents on the website of the Center for Translation Studies ofGuangdong University of Foreign Studies into English. Project management approachwas employed by the experimental group，while the participants in the control groupconducted the task traditionally. The evaluation of translation quality combines themarks given by the two external examiners with the results of peer review usingLikert scale in semantic, syntactic and discourse aspects. By comparing thetranslations of the experimental group and the control group, it is found that projectmanagement approach works in translation practice, and both groups have their ownfeature. Statistical data and results from independent sample t-test (using SPSS16.0)shows that there is significant difference between experimental and control group.Specifically speaking, the translation quality of the experimental group is evidentlybetter than that of the control group in terms of semantic and discourse aspects, whilethe syntactic differences are not obvious.Results of the experiment reveal that project management approach is feasible intranslation practice. And the utilization of this approach helps in producinghigh-quality translation products. |
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