A Report On E-C Translation Of Education In Thailand (Excerpts) From The Perspective Of The Skopos Theory

The source text of this report is about Education in Thailand.The work,written in English,explains the factors affecting education in Thailand,describes the development process of education in Thailand,and analyzes the possible development trend of education in Thailand in the future.The report writer was commissioned by Linguist Translation Services(China)to translate chapter six and chapter seven of the source text independently.The content of this section is mainly about the history and development of Thailand's modern education reform and the prospect of its education in the future.The source text is a comprehensive,theoretical and applied academic monograph of education,and belongs to the informative text.The report analyzes the features of the original text and summarizes the achievements of translation at lexical level and syntactic level with cases study from the perspective of the skopos theory.The report classifies the vocabulary into specialized vocabularies of Thailand administrative agencies,Thailand education and Thailand national plans and laws,and adopts the translation methods of amplification,omission and adaptation;The long and complex sentences are classified into split structure,compound sentences and complex sentences,and the translation methods such as division,omission,amplification,and rearrangement of sentence structure are adopted.This report first describes the process of analyzing the source text,determining the text type and grasping the language features.Second,the translation process is introduced.The following is an overview of the theoretical part.Then,the applicability of the skopos theory in source text translation is demonstrated through case study.At last,this report summarizes the translation practice.This report summarizes the methods used in this translation practice and the shortcomings of the translation process,hoping to provide some experience and reference for the author's translation of the same type texts in the future.