Corpus-based Analysis of Vocabulary Translation in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Saihong Li is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her interdisciplinary research in digital humanities spans cultural studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. She has extensively analysed food, tourism, and political discourse translation, publishing monographs and refereed journal articles on topics ranging from menu translation to bi/trilingualism. She is a co-editor of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice and is a book series editor for Routledge Studies in Global Food Translation.Yifei Hao is Lecturer in Teaching English as a Second Language at Baotou Teachers’ College, Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology, China. She holds an MA in Cross-Cultural Communication and Education from Newcastle University, UK, and a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Stirling, UK. Her doctoral research focused on vocabulary translation issues in Chinese textbooks for non-native learners. Dr. Hao’s current research interests span from Applied Linguistics, Interpreting and Translation Studies, and Corpus Linguistics to Chinese Teaching and Learning.

• 1 Introduction 2 The Literature Landscape in T.C.F.L. Pedagogies and Vocabulary Translation 3 Theoretical Foundations: Framing Vocabulary Translation in T.C.F.L. Textbooks4 Research Methodology: Triangulation Approach to T.C.F.L. Vocabulary Translation 5 Analysis of Vocabulary Translation in T.C.F.L. Textbooks: Users’ Views 6 Corpus Analysis of the Identified Translation Challenges in T.C.F.L. Textbooks 7 Comparative Analysis of Word Class Disparities in Vocabulary Translation Between Preliminary and Intermediate T.C.F.L. Textbooks 8 Concluding Remarks