On the Construction and Application of a Platform-Based Corpus in Tourism Translation Teaching

Literature Review

The development of Corpus Studies, as we know it, inevitably attracts more and more attention to the application of corpus in teaching. With various discussions on corpus and translation teaching, a conclusion has been drawn that corpuses/corpora may greatly assist in teaching. And it is observed that corpus-aided teaching may improve learners’ ability of both understanding others and expressing themselves (Johns, 2010; Wang & Zhu, 2012; Mu & Zhu, 2013; Zhu & Mu, 2013; Awal et al. 2014; Wang & Qin, 2015). Bowker (1998), as early as the end of last century, in his controlled experiment, found that the group taught with the aid of corpus had a better performance in translation practice than that taught in the traditional way. Łuszcz (2016) also finds that communicative creativity and development of foreign language learners may be enhanced with the application of corpora in the second language pedagogy. We may now safely say that the existing research has proved that the development of corpus studies had opened a new door for the reform of translation teaching.