Author(s)

Tingting He ¹, Lingyun Lv ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang, China

Corresponding Author

Tingting He

ABSTRACT

Zhu Ziqing's canonical prose piece, Moonlight over the Lotus Pond, is celebrated for its profound artistic conception, linguistic elegance, and rich cultural-aesthetic resonance. This study explores strategies for achieving poetic transformation in its English translation by proposing a three-dimensional pedagogical framework centered on discourse, syntax, and lexis. Taking the fourth paragraph as a case study, the approach demonstrates how to guide English-major students in paratactic-to-hypotactic conversion and lexical nuance refinement. Ultimately, it aims to enhance their capacity to preserve the dual integrity of form and conception while deepening their understanding of prose stylistics and cross-cultural aesthetic transmission through a structured, process-oriented method.

KEYWORDS

A Three-Dimensional Pedagogy, Discourse, Syntax, Lexis, Poetic Translation, Moonlight over the Lotus Pond

CITE THIS PAPER

Tingting He, Lingyun Lv, Toward a Three-Dimensional Pedagogy: Applying Discourse, Syntax, and Lexis to Poetic Translation in Moonlight over the Lotus Pond. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2025) Vol. 8: 117-123. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2025.080715.

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