Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom (Benjamins Translation Library) - Hardcover

Gonz�lez-Davies, Maria

9789027216601: Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom (Benjamins Translation Library)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027216606 ISBN 13: 9789027216601

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

The main aim of this book is to provide teaching ideas that can be adapted to different learning environments and that can be used with different language combinations. The pedagogical approach and the activities, tasks and projects are based on Communicative, Humanistic and Socioconstructivist principles: the students are actively involved in their learning process by making decisions and interacting with each other in a classroom setting that is a discussion forum and hands-on workshop.Clear aims are specified for the activities, which move from the most rudimentary level of the word, to the more complicated issues of syntax and, finally, to those of cultural difference. Moreover, they attempt to synthesize various translation theories, not only those based on linguistics, but those derived from cultural studies as well.
This volume will be of interest to translation teachers, to foreign language teachers who wish to include translation in their classes, to graduates and professional translators interested in becoming teachers, and also to administrators exploring the possibility of starting a new translation programme.

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