With the rapid development of modern technology, more and more technical terms are created and extended. Therefore, the requirements and difficulties for translation of English for science and technology increase with each passing day. The translation of EST is a process of closely combining translation theory on the one hand and professional knowledge and practices on the other hand. As a result of the differences between the source language authors and the target language readers in the aspects of languages, cultures and ways of thinking, their cognitive schemata show certain differences. Cognitive schema theory is one of the important theories for translation of EST, but there are few studies on the translation of EST based on cognitive schema theory. Therefore, from the perspective of cognitive schema theory, the author analyzed the differences between the source language and the target language by some translation examples of EST, so as to analyze the application of translation of EST and put forward some strategies for the translation of EST.

Jing Fang. A Study on the Translation of English for Science and Technology from the Perspective of Cognitive Schema Theory. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 11: 34-41. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061107.

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