A Contrastive Study of English Source Text and Back-Translation Version and Its Application
Shuling Li · Sino-US English Teaching · 2016
Back-translation is the translation of a translated text back into the language of the original text, which is an effective way to ensure accurate translation and assumes to be beneficial to improving learner's English competence.This thesis, based on the author's back translation training exercise, intends to make a constrastive study of source text in English and its back-translation precisely from the aspects of word choice, collocation, and sentence mechanics.Results have shown that by doing back-translation practice, the learners will strengthen their awareness of language differences between English and Chinese.Besides, as a special kind of translation, back-translation has its implications on English learning and Chinese-English translation, such as being a recitation method and testing tool.