The question of metalanguage in an introductory course to Translation Studies: a Didactic Unit proposition

Authors

  • Filipe Mendes Neckel Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v26i0p57-86

Keywords:

Translation didactics, translation tasks, learning objectives, metalanguage, didactic materials design

Abstract

This paper aims to briefly present a proposition of translation metalanguage teaching for a Letters course. The goal of this proposition is to highlight the relevance, to the translation apprentice, of specialized language regarding the subject the apprentice is learning. A methodological approach of translation didactics based on solid pedagogical and theoretical principles allows a better construction of this knowledge. As theoretical support the concept of translation and translation competence developed by Amparo Hurtado Albir is used. In the elaboration of the Didactic Unit, an approach based on translation tasks is presented (HURTADO ALBIR 1999). We also make use of the learning goals approach, developed by Jean Delisle (1993), which forsees the teaching of metalanguage as a starting point in an introductory course in translation.

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Author Biography

  • Filipe Mendes Neckel, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
    É bacharel em Letras Alemão – Português pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), graduado em 2007, possui mestrado pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, no Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Tradução (PGET), onde realizou uma tradução comentada da obra de Jirí Levý – Die literarische Übersetzung: Theorie einer Kunstgattung. Atualmente faz doutorado no mesmo programa, trabalhando com didática de tradução, com foco no ensino da metalinguagem da tradução em um curso de Introdução aos Estudos da Tradução.

Published

2015-12-29

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How to Cite

Neckel, F. M. (2015). The question of metalanguage in an introductory course to Translation Studies: a Didactic Unit proposition. TradTerm, 26, 57-86. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v26i0p57-86