Dominant-language use in foreign-language academic writing processes are translation students at an advantage?

• Autores: Melanie Brinkschulte
• Localización: Fachsprache: Journal of Professional and Scientific, ISSN 1017-3285, Vol. 43, Nº. 3-4, 2021, págs. 114-139
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • 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.