Cultivating Translators’ Critical Thinking Competence Based on a Flipped Classroom Mode

Translation not only deals with the conversion between two languages, but also involves translators’ higher order thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation, and reasoning. Therefore, contemporary translators should not only master bilingual competence and translation skills, but also have to think critically during the translation process. Based on a flipped classroom mode, this article proposes to combine teaching designs and information technology, integrating critical thinking elements into translation teaching, to promote students’ translation competence and high-level thinking simultaneously.