TOWARDS TEXT DIDACTISATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING TRANSLATION SKILLS

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https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.104363

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translation skills, translation studies, translation textbook, text selection, text type, text length, text complexity, translation training

Abstract

The authors deal with one of the key issues in teaching translation, namely selecting suitable texts for in-class translation training. Translation belongs to the core courses in the study programme “Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication” at the Faculty of Applied Languages, University of Economics in Bratislava. For the text to be selected for the purpose of its didactisation, and in this way to contribute to the development of translation skills, it has to fulfil numerous criteria. The focus of this paper is on text topic and its content, text type, text length, and degree of text complexity. Learners need to be prepared for diverse situations; therefore they have to be exposed to diverse text types in terms of topic and genres. As far as the criterion of text length is concerned, we consider shorter texts more suitable for training translation, because they enable teachers to work with several texts within one lesson unit and study texts on various topics. We deal with the text complexity in terms of content, as well as syntactic structures and lexical density. Text complexity has to be adapted to learners’ language, professional and cultural level of students. Features of this kind of text and criteria of text selection described in the paper are based on domestic and international sources as well as on authors’ experience in teaching translation and their own translation activities.

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Author Biographies

Katarina Seresova, University of Economics in Bratislava Faculty of Applied Languages

PhD., Associate professor
Department of Linguistics and Translation

Daniela Brevenikova, University of Economics in Bratislava Faculty of Applied Languages

Associate Professor Dr. Daniela Breveníková conducts core courses in linguistics, namely the Introduction to the Study of the English Language, Linguistic Characterology of Modern English, and optional courses in Academic Writing and Rhetoric and Practical Stylistics. Her research interests include mainly contrastive rhetoric,  academic writing, and political linguistics. Since 2011 she has been working in the position of Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Lingua et vita published by the Faculty of Applied Languages, University of economics in Bratislava (UEBA), responsible editor of the scientific journal of the University of Economics in Bratislava,  The Economic Review, and member of the Board of Editors of the European Scientific Journal. In recent years the author has participated in Erasmus+ training programs in Nottingham, Great Britain and at the University of Elbasan,  Albania.

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2018-06-16

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Seresova, K., & Brevenikova, D. (2018). TOWARDS TEXT DIDACTISATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING TRANSLATION SKILLS. Advanced Education, 5, 96–100. https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.104363

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2018: Issue 9

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