The laboratory of Foreign Language School contains the Simultaneous Interpretation Room, Huaxia Translation Workshop, Language Lab and Phonetics Lab, the latter two covering an area of 1,200 square meters. Equipped with language broadcasting teaching system, autonomous English learning network platform, audio &video-on-demand system, English online library, New Horizon online learning system and Langoo academic network platform and so on, the lab undertakes a series of professional and experimental courses both for English majors and non-English majors.
The Simultaneous Interpretation Room came into service in September 2011, with the similar layout of the counterparts in international conferences. The 200-square-meter room consists of 1 seat for chairman, 4 interpreting booths, 8 seats for interpreters and 30 seats for delegates. At the beginning of its establishment, the hardware and software facilities topped the list in Hubei Province. It employs the powerful translation software brought from Transn Information-Technology Incorporated Company, the largest language service company in China, which can offer a 5-million-word English-Chinese bilingual corpus involving an array of industries, such as automobiles, chemicals, civil engineering, Mechatronics, publishing & art, etc.
Relying on Simultaneous Interpretation Room and translation & interpretation teaching team, Huaxia translation workshop was established in 2012, with excellent faculty of 30 professional translation supervisors, 10 revisers, 40 translators and several foreign teachers. Characterized by the project management to undertake translation projects, the workshop has the ability to efficiently produce high-quality computer-assisted translation with the multi-language platform and Transn corpus.
It possesses a wide range of business of translation and interpretation. As one of Transn’s language suppliers, the Workshop has accomplished dozens of translation projects with Hubei Satellite TV and other media, winning a good reputation in the market. What’s more, the workshop has been well-received among students thanks to its practical teaching mode that greatly improves students’ English level and practical skills.
