In:Exploring and Exploiting Parallel Corpora of Spanish: The PaCorES corpus collection in language and translation education and research
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez-Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 129] 2026
► pp. 133–156
The use of the German-Spanish parallel corpus (PaGeS) in the translation classroom
Published online: 1 October 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.129.07san
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.129.07san
Abstract
Translation students now have more resources at their disposal than ever. Of the many tools
available to them, corpora can be particularly valuable, since they provide direct answers to translation problems;
however, students frequently fail to make use of them. The purpose of this study was to examine how ten students from
the University of the Basque Country interacted with the German-Spanish Parallel Corpus (PaGeS). In an experiment, we made audio recordings of the students’ verbalizations and videos of
their computer monitors during a translation task. It can be concluded from our study that there was a predominance of
basic searches, suggesting that students were not taking full advantage of the corpus’s potential. This may be due to
a preference for other resources or insufficient exposure to the corpus itself.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The use of corpora in translation teaching
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Participants
- 3.2Source texts
- 3.3Data analysis process
- 4.Results and discussion
- 4.1What do they search for?
- Legal terminology
- Verbs of motion
- Phraseological units
- Others
- 4.2How do they search?
- 4.3Reflections and reactions from students
- 4.1What do they search for?
- 5.Conclusions
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