ACADEMIC LITERACY, GENRES AND COMPETENCES: A DIDACTIC MODEL FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO TRANSLATION STUDENTS

Authors

  • Paula Josefina Liendo Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.
  • María Palmira Massi Universidad Nacional del Comahue

Keywords:

didactic model, academic literacy, translation training, translation competence

Abstract

Academic literacy has been the subject of many publications in the last decade. Yet, the practices to develop it still need to be carefully contextualised, in accordance with the field of studies, the academic context, and even the language in which they are to be implemented. The aim of this work is to develop a didactic model that caters for the needs of (mainly advanced) translation students. Achieving an acceptable standard of academic literacy involves linguistic and extra-linguistic –discursive, sociocultural, metacognitive– competences, together with translation competence. Additionally, the study of English from a contrastive perspective –regarded as a problem-solving task and applied at the lexical, syntactic, textual and sociocultural levels– is deemed unavoidable. The didactic model has an ESP (English for Specific purposes) and textual approach. The activities proposed include metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection, cognitive and linguistic recognition and production, text analysis, design and assessment, discussion, negotiation and social interaction.

 

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Author Biographies

Paula Josefina Liendo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.

Paula Josefina Liendo has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and TEFL from Universidad de Jaén, Spain and has worked as an English teacher, translator and simultaneous and consecutive interpreter in different institutions in Argentina. She has worked at Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, since 2009, and has recently been appointed Associate Professor. Since 2014, she has been in charge of Lengua Inglesa Aplicada a la Traducción II & III. At present, she is a member of a research team and has published articles in national and international journals related to the fields of Applied Linguistics, TEFL, Translation and Interpreting. She has also been a referee for LACLIL (Colombia) and AJAL (Argentina). 

María Palmira Massi, Universidad Nacional del Comahue

María Palmira Massi holds an M.A. in Linguistics, with specialization in Discourse Analysis, from Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina. At present she is a Professor of English IV and Academic Writing at Facultad de Lenguas, and she has taught English Syntax, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, and Qualitative Research at the Teacher Training and Translation Schools at Comahue University. She has directed several research projects related to the following topics: media discourse, academic discourse, humour in the press and political discourse. Her interests include all aspects of Linguistics, with particular reference to the rhetoric of language in use, the development of intercultural competence and the relevance of explicit instruction on academic literacy at university level. She has contributed extensively to seminars, conferences and professional journals, both in Argentina and abroad, and has co-authored several books on research and ELT topics. 

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2017-12-19

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Liendo, P. J., & Massi, M. P. (2017). ACADEMIC LITERACY, GENRES AND COMPETENCES: A DIDACTIC MODEL FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO TRANSLATION STUDENTS. ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, (17), 251–272. Retrieved from https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ELIA/article/view/19221

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No. 17 (2017)

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