Exploring Taiwanese EFL Learners’ Lexical Avoidance Strategies in Handling Chinese Culture-Loaded Words in Chinese-to-English Translation
Culture-loaded words are common and often pose challenges for translators seeking equivalent terms. Observations in an undergraduate translation class indicated that Taiwanese EFL learners frequently employed lexical avoidance (Schachter, 1974) as a strategy. However, a deeper investigation is necessary to gain a fulle...