Applied English I

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Course：Applied English I

Course Code: 12A42

Credits: 2

Credit Hours: 32

Teaching Objective of the Course:

The course is the compulsory course for the undergraduate students of any major at sophomore year of International School and helps students to know the basic theories on Chinese and English translation in China and foreign countries, the basic differences between Chinese and English, and the basic ideas and basic rules of Chinese and English translation and master the basic characteristics of various common styles by introducing the similarities and differences between Chinese and English and the impact of different cultures of two languages on translation activities and the analysis of translation skills of various language units and of basic characteristics of various stylistical languages; further, it helps the students understand the levels of language units such as Chinese words, sentences and sentence groups by a large number of commentary of targeted examples and translation exercises, cultivates students' capacity of translating different styles and identifying the discourses. It also helps students master the translation techniques and translation capacities of Chinese words, long sentences and various common styles.

Therefore, its basic teaching goal is as follows: to cultivate the creativity-oriented talents' capacity of foreign language application and of theoretical introduction and application, and to cultivate and improve the students' capacity of comprehensive application of language and the social practice skills. Specifically, at the end of the course, the students can translate the sentence clusters or paragraphs of medium difficulties of Chinese into English in accurate and smooth manner at the speed of about 200-300 Chinese characters per hour.