El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: representaciones sociales de los docentes; El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: propuesta de traducción de artículos de investigación de referencia

Díaz Puertas, Alicia

El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: representaciones sociales de los docentes; El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: propuesta de traducción de artículos de investigación de referencia

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Díaz Puertas, A. El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: representaciones sociales de los docentes; El uso de la traducción con fines didácticos: propuesta de traducción de artículos de investigación de referencia. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54096

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Since this is an integrated project, it contains two purposes – on one hand, to analyse teachers’ representations about the use of translation in class and, on the other hand, to analyse the different ways translation can be used in the L2 teaching. Although it is known that translation as a cognitive process is a tool foreign language students often resort to in their first learning stages, its use in the classroom is currently disapproved by most professionals because of the bad image its practice brought in the grammar-translation method, known for being the first L2 teaching method to appear and to be employed for centuries. Nonetheless, in this project it is also shown some information about another reformist methodology in which translation also plays a big role and is applied differently, which is called Translation in Other Learning Contexts (TOLC). Additionally, the arguments against and in favor that professionals provide about translation in L2 classes are introduced. For the achievement of this first purpose the making of 4 interviews to teachers about their perception of this practice is carried out. The results of the interviews indicate that there are no didactic materials for the use of translation in class in the way TOLC suggests, which leads, on the other hand, to the second purpose of this project: the making of a translation proposal of some articles of investigation of reference about translation in L2 teaching as one more linguistic skill. When addressing said translations, the following translation problems were analysed: acronyms, titles of diverse types of documents, proper or common nouns, false friends, expressivity and isolated cases.