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Vol. 1:1 (2003) ► pp.113–138

Foreign Language Translation by a Translator and a Language Learner

A Focus on Processes

| Dongduk Women’s University
Cette étude porte sur le processus de traduction de L1 en L2(Coréen-Anglais) réalisée par un traducteur professionnel et un étudiant en utilisant la méthode think-aloud.
Il s’agit de mettre en évidence les différences dans l’approche et le processus de traduction entre un professionnel et un non-professionnel. Ils énoncent leurs idées au cours de la traduction qui est enregistrée et analysée. L’analyse révèle des différences importantes entre le traducteur professionnel et l’apprenant en langue étrangère concernant l’unité et la stratégie de traduction.
Le premier traduit spontanément au niveau des phrases. Elle utilise des statégies variées telles que regroupements, paraphrase, réduction de sens, omission, jeu de mot, recherche dans le dictionnaire...etc. Au contraire, l’apprenant a tendance à traduire mot à mot et sa traduction s’approchait davantage du mot à mot. Sa stratégie se limite à une recherche dans le dictionnaire. Le texte produit par le traducteur professionnel est succinct et naturel alors que celui de l’apprenant est plus long, parfois inapproprié et artificiel.
Le résultat final a été examiné en relation avec le processus observé. Il semble qu’ travail médiocre dépendant du dictionnaire produit une traduction trop littérale. Les résultats de cette étude peuvent être utilisés dans l’enseignement de la traduction. La traduction du sens doit être encouragée en amenant les étudiants à traduire à un niveau plus élaboré qu’un simple mot à mot, au moins par groupes de mots, tout en utilisant le dictionnaire de manière plus sélective. Des stratégies variées doivent être requises. Avant tout la confiance en soi semble être la clé du développement de la traduction.
Keywords: language learner, translation unit, translation strategy, process, Thinking-Aloud Protocol
Published online: 1 April 2003
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