Questionnaire survey data.

The United Nations has set a Sustainable Development Goal in education to be met hopefully by 2030. One of the target areas is to substantially increase the number of youth and adults possessing training and proficiency relevant to the technical and vocational skills needed for employment, well-paying jobs, and decent entrepreneurships. Enrolled students need to be equipped with core competencies suitable for the fields in which they are specializing, including the field of translation. For student translators, “transcreation” is a core competency they are expected to acquire and practice. With its increasing application in all sectors of life, the use of artificial intelligence or machine translation is on its way to becoming mainstream in the translation industry, eliminating bread-winning opportunities from translators, leaving them in the stream of life to sink or swim. That is why trainers of translators and practitioners alike insist that it is time to consider transcreation so that student translators can better embrace future challenges and boost their employability. A one-shot case study was adopted in this research. After a one-semester trial of teaching and practicing transcreation, an online questionnaire survey was administered to gain the overall perceptions of transcreation from the students. Findings show that the students have raised their awareness of transcreation as a novel approach to translation and most of them feel confident about their employability in the translation job market. Implications for translation syllabus design and translator training are also illustrated.联合国设定了一项教育领域的可持续发展目标，有望在2030年前达成。其中一项核心目标是大幅增加掌握与就业、高薪职业及体面创业所需的技术与职业技能相关培训及熟练度的青年与成年人数。注册在校生需具备与其专业领域适配的核心能力，翻译领域亦在此列。对于学生译者而言，“创作式翻译（transcreation）”是他们应当掌握并实践的核心能力之一。随着人工智能或机器翻译在生活各领域的应用日益广泛，其在翻译行业正逐渐成为主流趋势，这或将挤占译者的谋生机会，令从业者面临生存考验。因此，译者培训师与行业从业者均认为，当下应当重视创作式翻译教学，助力学生译者更好地应对未来挑战，提升就业竞争力。本研究采用单案例研究法，在为期一学期的创作式翻译教学实践后，通过在线问卷调查收集学生对创作式翻译的整体认知情况。研究结果显示，学生已提升了对创作式翻译这一新兴翻译方法的认知，且多数学生对自身在翻译就业市场的竞争力充满信心。本研究同时阐明了其对翻译课程大纲设计与译者培训的启示意义。