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Corpus Use and Translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translateEdited by Allison Beeby, Patricia Rodríguez Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón
[Benjamins Translation Library 82] 2009
► pp. 9–28
Using corpora and retrieval software as a source of materials for the translation classroom
Heike van Lawick | Castelló de la Plana, Spain
This article starts from a twofold distinction: that between corpora as documentation tools and corpora as a source of materials for the translation classroom, and that between corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches. Then a pedagogic framework for translator training is outlined in which the notion of objective is central and a task-based methodology is used. Within such a framework, four kinds of corpus-related tasks are presented and illustrated: cloze tests based on a bilingual corpus, multiple choice exercises based on a learner corpus, translation of short passages yielded by the concordancer and concordance analysis. The first three are corpus-based, whereas the last one is more corpus-driven and can be used to promote autonomous learning and discovery strategies.
Keywords: autonomous learning, cloze test, concordancing, corpora, corpus-based, corpus-driven, COVALT, multiple choice exercise, task-based approach, Translator training
Published online: 11 March 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.82.03mar
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.82.03mar
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