TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES

TASK 5 Why translation is like music? VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxX_JkIpIA CONCLUSION Translation has a huge impact all over the world due to the importance of having people communicate their ideas into the market, even though it has been stablished English as the global language there are still hundreds of people who do not use that language yet, giving an opportunity to translation to take place. Therefore, translation is not only placing an idea into another’s person’s language, it goes beyond, it refers to giving meaning in a different language to an idea that has been said, that is why translation is similar to music, you need to be a professional to create and give meaning to the different accords you can make with an instrument, and if you have support from others the job becomes more complete. Also, it is important to mention the importance of technology in the process of translation since it gives “a new multilingual reality” giving access to info...

TASK 3 Why translation is like music? VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxX_JkIpIA Questions: 1.       How is big is the impact of translation in the global market? 2.       Why does translation mean more than speaking two languages? 3.       How is it translation similar to music? 4.       What is the impact of technology into translation? 5.       What does it mean “a new multilingual reality”?

TASK 2 Translation has been an important part of English language teaching for a long time, but it has been abandoned since communicative methodologies became dominant. By Sandra Manchola Translation has a huge importance at high levels of learning, since it allows communication and understanding between strangers (Ross, 2000) promoting awareness of the target language in relation to their mother tongue, also according to J. Harmer (2001), students use the mother tongue in class if they are linguistically incapable of activating vocabulary for a chosen task.  However, this language teaching technique was displayed by communicative language methods that focus on the language as a tool to communicate, based on the language usage rather than on the structure of it, placing translation as a less effective and not accurate approach for language learning. Furthermore, when translating word to word from L1 to L2 or backwards, the learner needs a huge knowledge of both lan...