Exploring the Potential of Corpora for Raising Language Awareness in Student Translators  

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Bowker, Lynne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 3&4 (1999), page 160-173.
Fulltext: 8.3&4.160-173.pdf (199.47KB)

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This paper explores the potential of a corpus-based approach for promoting language awareness in student translators. It begins by examiningthe principal criteriarequired to produce a good translation, and then explores some of the principal obstacles to language awareness that can be found in the translationclassroom: resistanceto correction, lack of motivation, and lack of awareness of the distinction between language for general purposes (LGP) and language for special purposes (LSP). The potential of electronic corpora and corpus analysis tools for helping to overcome these obstacles was investigatedby testing the following hypotheses: (1)when facedwith expert testimony in the form of a corpus, students will be more accepting of corrections; (2) corpora present the students with a new and interesting way of working so they will be more motivated to learn; and (3) the corpus provides a testbed against which students can evaluate LGP/LSP distinctions. A group of students translateda text twice, once using conventional resources (e.g. dictionaries) and a second time using corpus-based resources.The twosets of translationswere analysed for errors,and the results showed a trend towards improved linguistic skills and language awareness in students using electronic corpora.

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