Teaching Reform Strategies of University Interpretation Courses in the Post-Epidemic Era

Abstract

: In the post-epidemic era, the profits of some enterprises have dropped sharply, for which prefer to choose employees with practical and productive skills in order to reduce their training expenses. This situation brings new challenges to university language education, especially the teaching of English-Chinese interpretation courses. At present, there are several problems in the English-Chinese interpretation courses, such as students’ weak listening and speaking skills, teachers outdate teaching methods and separation of learning and use of teaching materials, which are not conducive to the development of students’ English practice and output ability. This paper introduces the “Production-oriented approach” theory, which emphasizes language output, into the university English-Chinese interpretation teaching, carries out teaching reform in terms of teaching objectives, teaching design and teaching evaluation, and focuses on the practice of three links: driving, facilitating and evaluating. The results of the comparison study between the experimental class and the regular class show that the production-oriented approach has obvious advantages in promoting students’ output in English. Applying the production-oriented approach in the English-Chinese interpretation course can stimulate students’ interest in learning, enhance their self-confidence in English-Chinese conversion, improve their English application ability and employment competitiveness, and increase their employment rate. In this regard, teachers should actively adopt the teaching concept of Production-oriented approach, aim at cultivating students’ language output ability in classroom teaching, increase the practical aspects of students’ language output as much as possible, combine the input learning of language knowledge and output application, promote both, guide students to use in learning, use in learning, and cultivate application-oriented talents with language output and practical ability.