O presente trabalho visa descrever a construção de um Vocabulário Técnico Online, denominado VoTec e disponibilizado em uma página da Internet, para aprendizes de Tradução. São discutidos vários modelos de obras similares que serviram de base para o desenvolvimento do mesmo. O VoTec é uma ferramenta que se vale de corpora técnicos para a construção de seus verbetes e de um banco de dados (ambos exaustivamente descritos) para o seu funcionamento. São apresentados, também, o resultado de duas pesquisas realizadas com tradutores: uma com profissionais da área, para colher suas opiniões sobre obras terminográficas em geral, e outra com aprendizes, para colher suas opiniões após o uso da ferramenta. A inovação proposta pela ferramenta é a possibilidade de customização de seus modos de apresentação na tela e as formas de busca no banco de dados. O modo de apresentação possibilita duas formas de visualização da microestrutura: a normal, formatada como os dicionários impressos, e a descritiva, uma forma própria dos dicionários eletrônicos, em que a microestrutura é descrita de forma hierárquica. A consulta ao banco de dados pode ser feita de três modos diferentes: total, tradutor e modular. A consulta total disponibiliza praticamente todos os campos existentes no banco de dados; a do tradutor apresenta os campos que se destacaram na pesquisa realizada com os profissionais da área; a modular é montada de acordo com as necessidades tradutórias do consulente, isto é, ele pode visualizar ou não cada campo disponível no banco de dados. Além dessas consultas ligadas ao banco, a página do VoTec disponibiliza, também, links para pesquisa externa em páginas pertinentes, como dicionários e enciclopédias online. / The present work aims at describing the construction of an Online Technical Vocabulary, to be known as VoTec and available on an Internet site for Translation learners. Many similar models are discussed and taken into account in its development. The VoTec is a tool that relies on a technical corpora and a data bank (both exhaustively described) to build up the entries available at the site. The results of two researches with translators are also shown: one with the professionals in the area, to collect their opinions about terminographical reference works in general, and another one with the learners, to elicit their opinions on the tool after they had their first contact with it. The innovation proposed by the tool is the possibility of customizing the display of its screens and the searches the data bank make available. The screen display offers two ways to view the microstructure: the normal one, similar to a paperback dictionary model, and the descriptive one, typical of electronic dictionaries, where the microstructure is described in a hierarchical way. The data bank can be searched in three different ways: total, translator and modulated. The total search shows almost all the fields available in the data bank; the translator one shows the fields that were highlighted by the professional translators in one of the researches; the modulated one is built up according to the user\'s translation necessities, that is, he/she can choose which field or fields of the data bank will be shown. Besides these searches which access the data bank, the VoTec page also offers links to external searches in related webpages, such as online dictionaries and encyclopedias.

O presente trabalho visa descrever a construção de um Vocabulário Técnico Online, denominado VoTec e disponibilizado em uma página da Internet, para aprendizes de Tradução. São discutidos vários modelos de obras similares que serviram de base para o desenvolvimento do mesmo. O VoTec é uma ferramenta que se vale de corpora técnicos para a construção de seus verbetes e de um banco de dados (ambos exaustivamente descritos) para o seu funcionamento. São apresentados, também, o resultado de duas pesquisas realizadas com tradutores: uma com profissionais da área, para colher suas opiniões sobre obras terminográficas em geral, e outra com aprendizes, para colher suas opiniões após o uso da ferramenta. A inovação proposta pela ferramenta é a possibilidade de customização de seus modos de apresentação na tela e as formas de busca no banco de dados. O modo de apresentação possibilita duas formas de visualização da microestrutura: a normal, formatada como os dicionários impressos, e a descritiva, uma forma própria dos dicionários eletrônicos, em que a microestrutura é descrita de forma hierárquica. A consulta ao banco de dados pode ser feita de três modos diferentes: total, tradutor e modular. A consulta total disponibiliza praticamente todos os campos existentes no banco de dados; a do tradutor apresenta os campos que se destacaram na pesquisa realizada com os profissionais da área; a modular é montada de acordo com as necessidades tradutórias do consulente, isto é, ele pode visualizar ou não cada campo disponível no banco de dados. Além dessas consultas ligadas ao banco, a página do VoTec disponibiliza, também, links para pesquisa externa em páginas pertinentes, como dicionários e enciclopédias online. / The present work aims at describing the construction of an Online Technical Vocabulary, to be known as VoTec and available on an Internet site for Translation learners. Many similar models are discussed and taken into account in its development. The VoTec is a tool that relies on a technical corpora and a data bank (both exhaustively described) to build up the entries available at the site. The results of two researches with translators are also shown: one with the professionals in the area, to collect their opinions about terminographical reference works in general, and another one with the learners, to elicit their opinions on the tool after they had their first contact with it. The innovation proposed by the tool is the possibility of customizing the display of its screens and the searches the data bank make available. The screen display offers two ways to view the microstructure: the normal one, similar to a paperback dictionary model, and the descriptive one, typical of electronic dictionaries, where the microstructure is described in a hierarchical way. The data bank can be searched in three different ways: total, translator and modulated. The total search shows almost all the fields available in the data bank; the translator one shows the fields that were highlighted by the professional translators in one of the researches; the modulated one is built up according to the user\'s translation necessities, that is, he/she can choose which field or fields of the data bank will be shown. Besides these searches which access the data bank, the VoTec page also offers links to external searches in related webpages, such as online dictionaries and encyclopedias.

This research paper analyzes the strategies that translation students of a Peruvian university use to regulate their emotions. The results show the most common scenarios: getting lower grades than expected, the lack of confidence in their conceptual and thematic background, aspects of the course methodology, and their relationships with their professors and classmates. The students’ process starts with the use of maladaptive strategies, such as rumination and self-blame. However, students continue their process and then use adaptive strategies to fulfill their goals, such as refocusing on their planning.

Para la formación del traductor profesional es necesario desarrollar distintas competencias, una de las más importantes es la competencia lingüística. Sin embargo, durante los últimos años, el desarrollo de esta competencia se ha visto afectada debido a la creencia generalizada de que los estudiantes de traducción tienen un dominio completo de su segunda lengua. Ligado a la competencia lingüística, se encuentra el desarrollo de las destrezas de comprensión de lectura y expresión escrita, ambas fundamentales para el buen desempeño de los estudiantes en los cursos de traducción. Por ello, la presente investigación se centra en describir las estrategias de enseñanza utilizadas por los docentes de inglés para el desarrollo de la comprensión de lectura y la expresión escrita del programa de traducción e interpretación de la UPC. Para lograr esto, se propone analizar los documentos usados para la enseñanza de los cursos de inglés, observar las clases y realizar entrevistas en los dos últimos niveles de enseñanza de inglés (Inglés TI4 e Inglés TI5) con la finalidad de lograr los objetivos planteados. / In the professional translation training it is necessary to develop different competences, one of the most important is the linguistic competence. However, in recent years, the development of this competence has been affected due to the widespread belief that translation students have a comprehensive knowledge of the second language. Furthermore, the development of reading comprehension and writing skills is closely linked to the linguistic competence, and both are essential for students’ academic performance in translation courses. Therefore, this investigation focuses on describing the teaching strategies applied by English teachers in order to develop reading comprehension and writing skills in the translation and interpreting English program at UPC. To achieve this, we proposed to analyze the documents used for teaching English courses, observe classes, and conduct interviews in the last two levels of English teaching (Ingles TI4 and Ingles TI5). / Trabajo de investigación

Les formations à la traduction pragmatique offrent un enseignement professionnalisant dense et multiforme. Or il n’est pas certain que les étudiants intègrent au mieux compétences déclaratives et opérationnelles, faute d’avoir suffisamment conscience de leurs méthodes de travail. Par ailleurs, les recherches sur l’expertise montrent qu’une formation initiale solide et des années d’expérience ne suffisent pas à garantir le développement optimal des compétences professionnelles. Outre un environnement de travail favorable au développement de ces compétences, la solution résiderait dans l’adoption d’une démarche d’apprentissage autorégulé.La présente contribution vise à évaluer la capacité des étudiants à adopter ponctuellement une telle démarche à la suite d’une séquence d’enseignement renforçant leurs compétences métacognitives. Une collecte de données de référence et deux expérimentations ont permis d’estimer l’effet de la régulation sur l’activité traduisante et d’évaluer l’intérêt du dispositif d’enseignement proposé.Il en ressort que les étudiants qui ont eu l’occasion d’analyser leurs propres processus cognitifs et de les comparer à ceux de leurs pairs et à ceux de professionnels présentant un degré élevé de régulation auraient les capacités d’agir consciemment sur leurs habitudes de travail. Ces résultats, qui demandent néanmoins à être vérifiés auprès de cohortes plus larges, indiquent que le dispositif d’enseignement proposé pourrait donner aux étudiants des clés pour intervenir sur leurs habitudes de travail et, plus largement, sur leur environnement de travail. Ce faisant, il s’inscrirait dans la dynamique actuelle qui sensibilise les étudiants en traduction à l’ergonomie cognitive, physique et organisationnelle au poste de travail. / Translator training programmes comprise a wide range of contents and of instructional methods. But it would appear that students do not bridge the gap between declarative and procedural competences to the best of their abilities as a result of their lack of knowledge and understanding of their own working habits. Moreover, expertise research has shown that however robust the initial training, the mere accumulation of experience does not automatically lead to the optimal development of professional competence. The key to expertise would rest both in a suitable working environment and in deliberately self-regulated practice.The present contribution aims at assessing the ability of students to deliberately alter a given aspect of their translation habits after taking part in a workshop designed to strengthen their metacognitive skills. Reference data were collected and analysed to work out the effect of regulation on translating. Our proposed teaching sequence was then tested on two groups of students.It would seem that those students who were able to analyse their own habits and to compare them to those of their fellow students and of professional translators displaying a high level of regulation were able to consciously alter their working habits to a certain extent. Due to the limited number of participants, these results need confirmation through repetition on wider cohorts. But it seems that the proposed teaching sequence could provide students with a tool to proactively improve their working habits or their working environment. As such, it could be part of the wider movement of raising students’ awareness of the importance of cognitive, physical and organisational ergonomics at the workplace that is currently taking place in translator training.

Text in English / Undergraduate students at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) experience great difficulty in developing their translation competence during their training period. On the one hand, they show many signs of poor quality during their training when they accomplish practical translation assignments on and off-campus. On the other hand, the quality of the final work submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor Honours Degree (Licenciatura) suggests that most students fail to go beyond the minimum standards with regard to translation competence. Yet, comprehensive research aimed at understanding factors hindering translation competence at the UEM has been scanty. Besides, the few studies available have some significant lacunae, for they focus on Portuguese language development; are limited to error analysis, and often ignore students‟ perspectives. Consequently, the problem of finding a balanced approach to developing students‟ translation competence has remained unaddressed. Therefore, this study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating the translation competence of the UEM undergraduates in order to establish the major obstacles to their translation competence development, and consequently come up with suggestions for improving the current translator-training degree programme. The study design uses qualitative methods translated into a case study approach. First, questionnaire data is analysed to gain lecturers‟ and students‟ perspectives on translation competence at the UEM. Second, a students‟ error typology is developed following a macro- and micro-textual analysis of their translations. The study concludes that substandard bilingual skills, compounded by curricular, attitudinal/motivational, pedagogical and infrastructural/instrumental factors, negatively impact the students‟ development of translation competence at the UEM and that addressing these may pave the way towards improving the current translation-training programme. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Linguistics)

Text in English / Undergraduate students at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) experience great difficulty in developing their translation competence during their training period. On the one hand, they show many signs of poor quality during their training when they accomplish practical translation assignments on and off-campus. On the other hand, the quality of the final work submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor Honours Degree (Licenciatura) suggests that most students fail to go beyond the minimum standards with regard to translation competence. Yet, comprehensive research aimed at understanding factors hindering translation competence at the UEM has been scanty. Besides, the few studies available have some significant lacunae, for they focus on Portuguese language development; are limited to error analysis, and often ignore students‟ perspectives. Consequently, the problem of finding a balanced approach to developing students‟ translation competence has remained unaddressed. Therefore, this study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating the translation competence of the UEM undergraduates in order to establish the major obstacles to their translation competence development, and consequently come up with suggestions for improving the current translator-training degree programme. The study design uses qualitative methods translated into a case study approach. First, questionnaire data is analysed to gain lecturers‟ and students‟ perspectives on translation competence at the UEM. Second, a students‟ error typology is developed following a macro- and micro-textual analysis of their translations. The study concludes that substandard bilingual skills, compounded by curricular, attitudinal/motivational, pedagogical and infrastructural/instrumental factors, negatively impact the students‟ development of translation competence at the UEM and that addressing these may pave the way towards improving the current translation-training programme. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M. A. (Linguistics)