On the Problems and Measures of Translation Teaching for English Majors in China

Translation acts as a key course among the courses of English major and plays an important role in sharpening the students' comprehensive ability to use languages in institutions of higher learning. However, in recent years, a majority of students have made it known that they achieved no good results in translation course, in which more or less problems exist. In order to find out the problems of translation teaching, this paper had a sample survey on 250 third-year students of English majors in West China universities about their response to translation teaching. With the analysis of the questionnaire, three problems have been found, and the paper finally gave some countermeasures and suggestions in the hope of attaining the goal of high quality translation teaching. To keep pace with the times, the paper also held the idea that Internet Aided Translation should be concluded in translation teaching and it also gave new ways of doing translation with the help of the Internet.