On Culture Teaching in Business English Translation Classroom

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2991/icmess-14.2014.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

culture teaching, business English translation, direct cultural input

Abstract

There is a hypothesis that the raising of learner’s cultural awareness and infiltration of cultural contents in translation teaching may have a good effect. This paper describes a research done with this purpose. The findings of the research, which is about a questionnaire and its feedback from Business English Major Students within a provincial university, focuses on the students’ comprehension and attitudes towards culture study and translation. Through the analysis to the data collected, it proves the positive effect of culture teaching to BE translation classroom. The paper suggests that it is necessary for the teachers of translation class to integrate translation skills with strategies of cultural awareness training.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.