%0 Journal Article %T Cultural Awareness and Translation Teaching at Higher Vocational College: Problems and Solutions %A Xuelian He %J Journal of Language Teaching and Research %D 2012 %I %R 10.4304/jltr.3.1.74-83 %X In this paper, an investigation has been done on culture knowledge acquisition and cultural awareness of English majors at Higher Vocational College by taking the students at Quzhou College of Technology as the subjects. The problem of lack of culture knowledge and cultural awareness has been shown through the analysis. The strategies and techniques on integrating culture into translation teaching at Higher Vocational Colleges are given for translation teaching by laying stress on imparting culture knowledge as well as translation skills so as to reduce students¡¯ translation errors. %K cultural awareness %K translation teaching %K culture integration %U http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jltr/article/view/6433