The challenges of designing a textual corpus to develop translation students’ academic literacy
Abstract: This work discusses the progress of Research Project J031, Alfabetización Académica y Tipologías Textuales en la Enseñanza del Inglés para la Traducción (2018-2021), whose aims are the compilation of an English-language authentic-text corpus for the design of didactic materials to advance translation students’ academic competences in English. The theoretical-methodological framework of this work, like that of the Project J031, is anchored in Academic Literacy (AL) studies (largely Bazerman’s Writing Across the Curriculum movement), Genre Theory, and the conception of teaching English in translator training as English for Specific Purposes. A discussion of the findings so far accounts for the benefits of the elaboration of a corpus of authentic texts for the development of learners’ AL and translation competence; and presents two elements for the analysis of the corpus: a classification tool and a taxonomy for text annotation. As preliminary conclusions, it is hoped this work contributes to the enhancement of students’ translation strategies and to the strengthening of links between theory, practice and research in AL and translator training.
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| Format: | Artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Lenguas
2019
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| Subjects: | ALFABETIZACION, FORMACION DE PROFESIONALES, TRADUCTORES, ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLES, TRADUCCION, INVESTIGACION, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/9528 |
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