Report On The Translation Of Dropout Prevention

The issue of student dropout is a difficult educational problem which has attracted great attention. Student dropout hinders not only the development of themselves, but also the improvement of the national quality. To prevent students dropping out of school, the U.S. government and all circles adopted a great deal of measures to solve the problem and have obtained positive achievement. Compared with student dropout of America, the issue of student dropout in China is more serious, while the strategies to prevent dropout are less effective. The source text of the translation report is Dropout Prevention, in which there are recommendations to help educators, administrators, and policymakers to reduce dropping out in high schools and middle schools. Thus, translating Dropout Prevention could provide reference for the educators, administrators and policymakers on preventing dropout in China.According to Newmark's text typology, the type of the source text is an informative text. And Newmark denoted that communicative translation is apt to serve for informative texts, thus the translation of the source text could be guided by communicative translation. Communicative translation stresses the effect on readers of target language rather than the original words or sentences. Based on communicative translation, the translator adopted acceptability as the translation strategy, so as to make the translation conform to the target language conventions and understandable and acceptable to the target readers. To achieve the acceptability of translation, the translator adopted some translation methods, like annotation, extension of word meaning, conversion, amplification, division and reconstructing of sentence structure, to overcome the great difference between English and Chinese in terminology, word meaning, part of speech, information completeness and sentence structure.This translation report is intended to not only provide reference for the educators, administrators and policymakers on preventing dropout in China, but give some enlightenment to those who translate such kind of text on the selection of translation strategy and application of translation methods and skills.