Dominant-language Use in Foreign-language Academic Writing Processes: Are Translation Students at an Advantage?

Autor: Machura, Ina Alexandra
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Zdroj: Fachsprache: Journal of Professional & Scientific Communication; 2021, Vol. 43 Issue 3/4, p114-139, 26p
Abstrakt: The present pilot study compares the use of the native language during foreign-language writing processes of two students enrolled in a Translation degree program to that of two students enrolled in an English Language and Literature degree program who had not received training in translation or interpreting. Across a range of sub-processes of source-based academic writing, native language use was found to be more frequent in the Translation students' than in the English students' think-aloud protocols. Possible relationships between the participants' patterns of language use and their academic socialization are discussed, as well as the potential that native language use in foreign-language academic writing processes can have to help students improve their foreign-language texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index