Tipología lexicográfica en la enseñanza del inglés como segunda lengua: Hacia una descripción del uso de los diccionarios

El presente artículo tiene como finalidad describir los principales diccionarios destinados a estudiantes de inglés como L2 y así contribuir a lo que se denomina tipología de diccionarios. Al mismo tiempo, el análisis refuerza la idea de que la tipología de diccionarios y las necesidades de los usuarios son dos conceptos íntimamente relacionados. A su vez, se exponen distintas cuestiones a la hora de abordar el uso del diccionario en las tareas productivas y receptivas y se incide en el hecho de que los estudiantes de una L2 necesitan un mayor entrenamiento en las destrezas relacionadas con el uso del diccionario para así beneficiarse de la información tan valiosa que estas herramientas de aprendizaje proporcionan. The current article aims to describe the main learners.’ dictionaries and therefore to contribute to what is called dictionary typology. In doing so, the analysis reinforces the idea that dictionary typology and user needs are concepts closely related. Thus, different perspectives are set out in order to deal with the use of dictionaries in both productive and receptive tasks and emphasis is placed on the fact that students of a L2 need more training into dictionary skills in order to take advantage of the valuable information dictionaries provid

Educación para la salud

Este trabajo de fin de grado consiste en la creación de un programa de educación diabetológica. Irá dirigido en concreto, hacia personas con Diabetes Mellitus tipo II insulindependientes. Para su diseño se utilizará el método PRECEDE-PROCEED

Lexicografía electrónica y traducción: propuesta de un modelo de adquisición de estrategias

[Resumen] Las fuentes de consulta electrónicas forman parte del proceso de documentación de todo traductor, y no hay duda de que un uso eficaz de las mismas es imprescindible para realizar con éxito el proceso de trasvase. El presente artículo pretende contribuir a la llamada lexicografía pedagógica. A tal fin, se propone un modelo de adquisición de estrategias de consulta de los diccionarios electrónicos que, a nuestro parecer, puede llegar a aumentar y mejorar tanto la competencia léxica de los estudiantes como las destrezas de búsqueda en los diccionarios electrónicos

Mapping new translation practices into translation training: promoting collaboration through community-based localization platforms

Crowdsourcing and collaborative translation, activities emerging on the translation scene recently, are playing an increasingly important role in the world of professional translation and in the localization industry. This article focuses on a study carried out to analyze the perception of a group of translator trainees regarding these new translation practices. A total of 20 undergraduate students participated in the research and were asked to perform a collaborative localization task using an online collaborative platform. Data subjected to a quantitative and qualitative analysis suggest that online collaborative translation tasks enhance students? motivation towards collaborative translation and help consolidate their technical knowledge about specific localization tools and files.Le crowdsourcing et la traduction collaborative, des activités récemment apparues sur la scène de la traduction, jouent un rôle de plus en plus important dans le monde de la traduction professionnelle et dans l’industrie de la localisation. Cet article se concentre sur une étude réalisée pour analyser la perception d’un groupe d’étudiants en traduction à l’égard de ces nouvelles pratiques de traduction. Au total 20 étudiants de premier cycle ont participé à la recherche et ont été invités à effectuer une tâche de localisation collaborative à l’aide d’une plateforme collaborative en ligne. Les données obtenues à partir d’une analyse quantitative et qualitative suggèrent que les tâches de traduction collaborative en ligne ont renforcé la motivation des étudiants à l’égard de la traduction collaborative et les ont aidés à consolider leurs connaissances techniques sur des outils et des fichiers de localisation spécifiques

Teaching English for medical translation: a corpus-based approach

Developing the appropriate linguistic and documentation skills in specialised domains is one of the greatest challenges in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses. Among other tools, corpora are intended as efficient resources students can use to improve and develop their thematic, terminological, and phraseological knowledge (Sánchez Ramos, 2020). Based on a non-experimental mixed-methods study, this paper reports the feasibility of a corpus-based approach to teaching medical translation at a postgraduate level. It analyses how a group of 40 postgraduate students at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) perceive the compilation of their own corpus and the usefulness of corpus management tools (CMTs) in solving thematic, terminological, and phraseological issues. The software LancsBox (Lancaster University) was used, which is a recently created CMT that incorporates automatic tagging, cutting-edge statistics information, and innovative visualization options. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of this data suggest that the ESP students were highly satisfied with the corpus-based approach. Our findings also reveal that postgraduate students incorporated CMTs during the whole course as documentation resources for their translation tasks, and they are willing to use them in their near future professional career. These results show the potential usefulness of CMTs and offer a way of integrating them into the ESP curriculum

A vueltas con los perfiles profesionales traductores: la localización de aplicaciones móviles

The ever-increasing popularity of the mobile application (app) localisation market makes it essential to review localisation training in the translation technology classroom. There is clearly a need for translator trainers to adopt appropriate teaching methodologies so that students will be ready for their future professional endeavours. The present study aims to investigate the students’ perception of a mobile app localisation module on an undergraduate course. Building on an action research methodology, qualitative and quantitative data drawn from discussion groups, direct observation and a final questionnaire, our study reveals that students were highly satisfied with the mobile app localisation module and felt that this training programme was useful in helping them to adapt to the growing demands of the localisation market.La creciente popularidad del mercado de la localización de aplicaciones móviles (app) hace necesario replantearse la inclusión de estos contenidos dentro del aula de traducción y tecnología. En consecuencia, los docentes han de adoptar metodologías de enseñanza adecuadas para que los estudiantes puedan enfrentarse a su futuro mundo profesional. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer la percepción de los estudiantes hacia un módulo de localización de aplicaciones móviles dentro de un programa de grado. Bajo la metodología de la investigación-acción, así como a través del análisis de datos cualitativos y cuantitativos extraídos de grupos de discusión, la observación directa y un cuestionario final, nuestro estudio concluye que los estudiantes se muestran muy satisfechos con el módulo de localización de aplicaciones móviles y consideran que las tareas realizadas son necesarias para hacer frente a la creciente demanda del mercado de la localización

Public service interpreting and translation training: a path towards digital adaptation to machine translation and post-editing

The ever-increasing demand for immediate access to information means interpreters and translators are increasingly using, and relying on, digital technology in their work. In the migratory context, machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE) have the potential to greatly increase the efficiency of public service interpreting and translation (PSIT), which is currently experiencing huge demand. This article describes and evaluates the implementation of a module focused on MT and PE within a postgraduate PSIT programme at a Spanish university. A mixed-methods methodology was used to collect both quantitative data (via a questionnaire) and qualitative data (via a reflective essay) from a group of 42 students during the 2020-2021 academic year. The results show that students were satisfied overall with both the content of the module and its implementation. However, they also felt that the module needed to be better integrated within the postgraduate PSIT programme as a whole in order to fully prepare them for their professional careers

MDA analysis of translated and non-translated parliamentary discourse

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovació

Making Ostrom’s framework applicable to characterise social ecological systems at the local level

Ostrom’s framework to analyse the sustainability of social-ecological systems has attracted great interest in the last years. It was not conceived to characterise systems, but its nature and structure make it very appealing to be used with this objective. However, its use to characterise three social-ecological systems where common-pool resource management is central created some methodological struggles and difficulties for comparing outcomes. This paper aims to present some adaptations developed for improving the framework’s comprehensiveness and practical applicability at local level, such as a transdisciplinary description of the second-level variables, the definition of a set of third-level variables to facilitate and enrich the descriptions and additional guidelines for gathering the information and planning data searching processes at local level. The whole process of adapting and applying the framework was the result of collaboration among scientists, and local researchers and stakeholders. The adapted framework permitted a comprehensive and comparable characterisation of the socialecological systems analysed and facilitated its use by the local communities

Cultural identity in alcoholic beverages advertising

Determinados anuncios utilizan el imaginario colectivo que identifica a una región o país para construir un mensaje eficaz y asociar así los valores de dicha cultura a la marca en cuestión. En este sentido, los anuncios de bebidas alcohólicas destacan por la frecuente creación de universos que remiten al lugar de origen del producto, apoyándose en imágenes que en ocasiones son fruto de estereotipos. Desde una perspectiva semiótica, es posible distinguir cómo las isotopías presentes en los anuncios de bebidas alcohólicas se manifiestan de forma diferente según el país emisor, rescatando los lugares comunes que configuran su identidad cultural. El objetivo del presente artículo es, por tanto, determinar la presencia de rasgos culturales distintivos de determinadas regiones que se observan en la publicidad de bebidas alcohólicas.In order to create an efficient message and to associate specific cultural values to a brand, advertisements refer to the elements within the collective imaginary which identify a region or a country. In this sense, alcoholic beverages advertising stands out for creating universes which refer to the origins of the product, by turning to images which result from stereotypes at times. Thus, when taking a semiotic point of view, it is possible to distinguish how the isotopes which appear within advertisements of alcoholic drinks are different depending on the country, feeding on commonplaces that constitute their cultural identity. Thus, the goal of the present article is to determine the presence of cultural distinctive characteristics of certain regions which are found in advertisements of alcoholic drinks