Title: Translation in foreign language teaching: A case study from a functional perspective
Abstract: There is little research available on using translation as a tool to develop students' translation and communicative competence in foreign language programmes. This paper aims to fill this gap by reporting the results of a localized empirical study, using a functionalist theoretical framework. After a pre-translation source text analysis of three texts with EU topics, data were collected by two methods: a linguistic analysis of the student translations of these texts to identify and analyze the most common translation problems, and semi-structured interviews to explore their individual difficulties. The results show that a functional approach can sensitize students to the relationship between text and context, which can develop their cultural and textual awareness. Since the students' translation problems stem from various individual difficulties, exploring and analyzing them can provide valuable additional information for the teacher about the translation process.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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