THE LEGAL TRANSLATION LEXICAL SHEET AS A TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN LEGAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING
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https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi.5607Keywords:
legal translation, translator training, legal translation studies, collaborative learningAbstract
Collaborative learning is considered one of the most suitable approaches for learner-centred strategies and is especially useful in today's translator training, due to its adequacy for the acquisition of translation skills. The implementation of collaborative strategies in translator training has led to a significant reduction in individual activities in the classroom, with an increasing weight of collective work, which facilitates the integration of the new translator into multidisciplinary teams. Legal translator training, found at the confluence of two legal systems, requires, in addition to the other transversal and specific skills required of a specialised translator, knowledge of the law and legal language, which places an additional burden on the design of the activities to be developed by the trainees.
This paper describes the implementation of a legal translation project as a teaching tool in legal translator training, as part of the Master's Degree in Specialised Translation and Interpreting at Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP - P.PORTO). Its advantages as part of a collaborative approach to learning are also emphasised, as is the perception of the students, who validate the experience as a as a beneficial part of their learning, particularly when part of a comprehensive training strategy, based on the student's own construction of knowledge and the acquisition of specific and transversal competences, in accordance with the Competence Framework of the European Masters in Translation (EMT, 2022).
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