Corpus-Assisted Translation Teaching

Kanglong Liu is an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include corpus-based translation studies, language and translation pedagogy and translation studies of “Hong Lou Meng”. Dr. Liu has worked and taught in a few universities in Hong Kong after obtaining Ph.D. in Translation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently Associate Editor of Translation Quarterly, the official publication of the Hong Kong Translation Society. It is noteworthy that he has published widely in scholarly journals, such as Chinese Translators Journal, Translation Quarterly, Journal of Translation Studies, Literary and Linguistic Computing while also serving as Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Translation Society and Member of Executive Committee of the Translators Association of China.Up to present, he has been acting as Principal Investigator of the Hong Kong RGC project “How do students perform and perceive translation tasks in corpus-assisted translation settings?” as well as GRF project “Translation or Mediation Universals? A Corpus-based Multidimensional Analysis of Learner Translation with Professional Translation and Non-native Language Variety”. Meanwhile, he has served with distinction as a judge for The Hong Kong Youth Translation Competition over the past few years.

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• Introduction and Research Rationale.- Corpus-assisted translation teaching: an overview.- Web-based parallel corpora: technical issues.- Methodology.- Background survey and translation experiments.- Attitudes of students towards corpus use in translation.- Conclusions and implications.