A Report On The Translation Of 100 Ideas For Teaching English (Excerpt) Guided By Skopostheorie

As the society advances, the education is becoming more and more important. Schools need more educators with high quality, so it is important to cultivate educators. Although we have cultivated professional educators through kinds of ways, we still need some foreign education ideas and methods for reference.100 Ideas for Teaching English is an educational text introducing the theories and practices about English education, including lexical and syntactic teaching strategies, design of class activities and methods of classroom implementation. This book is rigorous and logical, which reflects the profession and practice of the informative text.The author of this translation report discusses the problems which appear in the process of translating this book and writes this translation report. And it has been divided into four parts, including description of the translation task, process description of the translation project, case analysis and conclusion. The source text is an informative text, which aims to transfer the accurate information to the target readers. Therefore, the author selects the skopostheorie as the theoretical foundation of this translation report. This translation report searches for effective translation methods guided by the skopos rule, the coherence rule and the loyalty rule in order to deal with the translation of the informative text in the level of words, sentences and discourse. For example, literal translation and free translation are applied for the word translation. Conversion of passive voice, adaptation, decomposition, recombination and cohesive devices are used for the sentence translation. And a variety of translation methods are involved to deal with the discourse translation, which aims to reach a satisfactory translation finally.