标题：The Acquisition of Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge through the Translation of Foreign Language Texts and their Dissemination within the Public Sphere
期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (e-FLT)
电子版ISSN：0219-9874
出版年度：2013
卷号：10
期号：Supplement 1
页码：292-308
出版社：National University of Singapore
摘要：Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan’s only university that specializes in area studies, has developed a new language education program for the purpose of encouraging the understanding of world issues through the study of foreign languages. Since 2005, we have been receiving a special funding in order to gather important articles from the Internet to use as teaching materials for the students majoring in Arabic, Turkish and Persian Studies. The students have also been posting Japanese translations of the articles on the University’s home page. For students, the responsibility of translating and presenting these articles to the public, as opposed to traditional methods, leads to not only an improvement in their translating skills, but also a bond between Japan and the respective area of study and a clear awareness of Japanese society’s culture and its relation to world. This, in turn, contributes to the education of people with a high level of language skills and the ability to cooperate with people from many different cultural backgrounds in order to work towards solutions for world problems. We are attempting to use the translation of authentic cultural texts from other regions to further these objectives, an example being the translation of a Malay comic by advanced students to be incorporated into the Malay Studies curriculum and perhaps published online for public dissemination.
