Using corpora and retrieval software as a source of materials for the translation classroom

Abstract

CORP6GRAFO, by centralizing all the work done, will also allow us to coordinate all the resources produced so that, even when the students have finished their immediate projects, the results can be re-used for more general purposes whenever possible and appropriate.

Integrating controlled corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialised translation

“…grasp the intricacies of English NPs -requires providing them with previously analysed, selected and structured linguistic material (in other words, 'controlled' data by teachers themselves) that goes beyond a list of concordances. In that respect, not only does our pedagogical perspective greatly favour using corpora for translation teaching, it is also in line with scholars such as Marco and van Lawick (2009) who regard corpora as a "source of materials for the translation classroom", thus prompting an emerging -or still under-explored-perspective in corpusbased applied translation studies. 3 2.3.…”

“…Comparable corpora are commonly defined as "a collection of texts composed independently in the respective languages and put together on the basis of similarity of content, domain and communicative function (Zanettin 1998:614)" while "components in two or more languages, consisting of original texts and their translations" (Aston 1999:290) are referred to as "parallel". Undoubtedly, concordancers 2 play a major role in helping students navigate through comparable or parallel corpora; as a matter of fact, the vast majority of practice-oriented studies has focused on searching corpora in the classroom through concordancers, with corpora acting as "documentation tools" (Marco, van Lawick 2009). In our study, we stand quite a different view in that we aim at designing coherent sets of controlled corpus data, or corpus-based 'clues', based on the assumption that helping students tackle a given linguistic translation issue -e.g.…”

La expresión del movimiento en alemán como dificultad para el traductor

“…Otra posibilidad consiste en el análisis de concordancias (Marco y Lawick, 2009), es decir, trabajar con el programa de concordancias para poder observar la frecuencia y el comportamiento de dichos verbos, así como sus combinaciones con prefijos separables y no separables, los verbos y prefijos más recurrentes, etc. Para ello, como fase previa, el alumnado debería obtener cierta práctica con los programas de concordancias.…”

nuts and bolts of corpora

“…Hikma 22(1) (2023), 307 -337 Varantola (2003), Rodríguez-Inés (2008), Bowker, McBride y Marshman (2008), Marco Borillo y Van Lawick (2009), Bernardini (2016), Rodríguez-Inés y Gallego-Hernández (2016) o Biel (2017). La aplicación de los corpus lingüísticos para la enseñanza de la traducción será también el tema de investigación del presente estudio.…”