An Empirical Study of Application of Cultural Confidence to Translation Teaching in College English

Abstract

This paper presents the validity and credibility of the effect of translation teaching in College English (CE) interfered with comparative linguistic cultural knowledge between Chinese and English aiming at raising non-English majors’ cultural confidence on translation competence. Based on empirical research, the details of our research include questionnaire, pre-test, teaching experiment, post-test and interview. The analysis of data of pre-test and post-test through SPSS 26.0 reveals that the translation competence of students in Experimental Class (EC) has been improved significantly after a semester’s new translation teaching approach. Students hold positive attitudes to raising their cultural confidence in translation teaching by introducing linguistic cultural knowledge. Two implications, the improvement of discourse system combining the Eastern and Western culture and the positive effects of translation teaching in CE have been discussed. And three limitations, the time, the size, and importantly the abstract aspect of linguistic cultural knowledge itself on a comparative perspective of the study have been put forward at the end of this paper.