Teachers’ Attitude Resources in Translation Teaching from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory (Published)
Teacher discourse was rich in attitude resources and were able to facilitate the process of teacher-student interaction. This study is to determine the teachers’ attitude resources in translation teaching from the perspective of appraisal theory by conducting observations of the 16 winners of the 12th SFLEP (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) National Foreign Language Teaching Contest (Translation Major Group), transcribing their teaching videos into a written text corpus, and then exploring how these teachers use teacher discourse to organize and implement instruction, with an aim to reveal some implications for translation teaching.
Keywords: Teacher-student interaction, appraisal theory, attitude resources, teacher discourse