Contacts and Contrasts in Educational Contexts and Translation

Description

This volume covers descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena and processes which emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in educational and translation contexts. It contains eleven papers, divided into two parts, which focus respectively on the issues of language and culture acquisition and a variety of translation practices (general language, literature, music translation) from socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Studying Parental Attitudes to Intergenerational Transmission of a Heritage Language: Polish in Regensburg (Hanna Pułaczewska)....Pages 3-19 Shukriya’s Story: Negotiating Cultural Dissonance While Learning to Be Literate (Barbara Nykiel-Herbert)....Pages 21-44 Tapping the Distinction Between Explicit and Implicit Knowledge: Methodological Issues (Mirosław Pawlak)....Pages 45-60 Using Boundary Objects in the Methodology of TEFL at the Tertiary Level of Education (Agnieszka Gadomska)....Pages 61-71 CLIL Education (Agnieszka Borowiak)....Pages 73-83 Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Creative Way (Katarína Chválová, Eva Stranovská)....Pages 85-103 An Integrated Approach to Assessment in Translator Training: The Value of Self-reflection (Paulina Pietrzak)....Pages 105-115 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 In Defence of the Cultural Other: Foreignisation or Mindful Essentialism? (David Katan)....Pages 119-142 From Minor to Major: Accessing Marginal Voices Through Music. New Ways for Translation? (Lucile Desblache)....Pages 143-155 Translation Corpus-Informed Research: A Swedish-Croatian Example (Goranka Antunović)....Pages 157-170 Dickens the Moralist: Translation Analysis of David Copperfield (Agnieszka Kałużna)....Pages 171-181 The Translation of Dune: An Encounter of Languages (Alice Ray)....Pages 183-194