LEARNER CORPORA, CORPORA OF PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATIONS AND CREATIVE WRITING IN A COURSE ON TRANSLATION OF GENERAL TEXTS: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

The aim of the project is threefold: (i) raising the students’ awareness on the possibility of interference between German and Spanish past tenses when translating narrative sequences; (ii) allowing the students practicing data-driven learning about translation issues, and (iii) observing if these interventions bring about a qualitative change in their translation performance, specifically in the decrease of interference when translating narrative sequences with past tenses from German into Spanish.

In the paper, special attention will be paid to the theoretical basis of the project, as well as to the methodological decisions involved in its design.