Fabiola Melina Ramos Arauz 51120005-80 traducción

1. Pedagogical uses of translation
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Translation facilate comunication between speakears
of different languages
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Translation has been proposed as a means for
learning and teaching a foreight language
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this would be in line with the important general
pedagogic principle of building on what learners are
already familiar with.

2. Arguments against translation
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Opponents of the uses of translation claimed that
translation into the foreign language interfered with
the natural process of learning a foreign language.
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Corrupted it uses through what was thought to be an
unnaturalco-presence of the mother tongue.
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Interference to occur when learners translated from
the foreign language into their native language.

3. Arguments against translation
 It was claimed that the learnears command command of
their native would suffer due to confusing co-present of
foreign language in their minds.
 None of these arguments was substantiated in
experimental reaearch.
 Theories of how two language are learnt, stored, an
recalled suggest that it is natural and normal to switch
into bilingual mods.

4. Arguments for translation
 Translation into the foreign language and from the
foreign language has always been widely employed as a
teching teachnique in foreign language departaments.
 Translation is a key feature in the so-called grammartranslation method.
 Translation is a mode of comunication.
 Communicative translation activities can also involve the
production of original source text.

5. Current issues
 Translation as intercultural comunication, the nature of the
translation process, corpus translation studies, and translation and
globalization.

6. Translation as intercultural
communication
 Translation is both a linguistic and a cultural activity
involving communication across cultures.
 One major difference is the degree to which the
recipients of the translation are necessarily aware of the
fact that the translation originates in another culture.
 Cultural filter is applied in order to adapt the source text
to the communicative norms of the target culture.

7. Translation as intercultural
communication
 The intercultural perceptions has been absorbed by the
translator but denied to the recipients of the translation.
 In recent decades has been a shift in translation studies
from a linguistic to a cultural orientations.
 The received view of translation today is that it is first
and foremost a process of intercultural change a kind of
cross-linguistic substiution.
 This view is epitomized in statements such as ‘one does
not translate languages’ but ‘cultures or translation is
cultural translation’.

8. The nature of the translation process
 One method used in this internal or process approach to
translation is to ask translators what they are thinking,
while they are translating.
 This is know as thinking aloud or introspection.
 one can also ask translators inmediately after they finish
translating about dificulties, this is known as
retrospection.
 Verbal reports also known as think-aloud protocols.

9. Corpus stidies in translation
 Corpus is a collection of texts selectd and compiled
acording to specific criteria.
 The use of corpus methods in translation studies has a
number of advantage.
 Corpus methodes also allow us to focus on a
combination of lexical, sintactic, and discoursal features.
 Corpus methodes are useful for analysing translations as
paralel corpora.
 These consist of a set of text in one language and a set
of their translations into another language .

10. Translation and globalization
 Globalization processes have not only had an impact on
world economy and international politic, they also
dramatically altered the role of translation in the modern
world.
 Now rely heavily on new information technologies such
as internet.
 Translation plays an important role in multilingual news
writing and in the provision of touris information
worldwide.
 The development of the World Wide Web has spread the
need for translation activities into e-commerce
globalization, another field of growing importance.