Corpus de Aprendizes de Tradução: possíveis aplicações na sala de aula de uma disciplina de tradução

Abstract

The research on Learner Translator Corpus (LTC) in Brazil is still on early stages. Therefore, the aim of this study is to contribute to translation teaching and translator training areas by designing an LTC in a university in the state of Rio de Janeiro as an attempt to minimize the gap in such areas of research in Brazil. The existing theories and studies related to Learner Translator Corpora have been described and commented here. For the CATUERJ LTC to be designed, seven source texts in English and eight translations to Portuguese have been gathered. These translations were made by trainee translators from the translation office of the university. The texts were, then, divided into two subcorpora called CATUERJ-Ing, covering the source texts, and CATUERJ-Tra, covering the translations to Portuguese. They were aligned in sentence level using an open source aligning tool, turning the CATUERJ into a parallel corpus. Next, the existing theories and studies in the area were compared to examples taken from the CATUERJ, aiming at creating application possibilities in a classroom of introductory translation studies (Walsh, 2014), in order to highlight the importance of illustrating and keeping record not only of the design of the LTC, but also of the real possibilities of use (Santos, 2014). Results deriving from the research with CATUERJ point at the numerous possibilities of using examples from the corpus within different classes, contributing to the enrichment of activities as well as the debate about choices made by the trainee translators