Tipo: libro

Temas: español para fines específicos

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Español para Fines Específicos (EFE) / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) es el primer manual de este tipo que presenta investigaciones actualizadas en este subcampo en auge dentro de las lenguas para fines específicos (LFE).

Escrito en español, este manual reúne a académicos de EFE de distintas partes del mundo para compartir perspectivas sobre las corrientes pasadas, presentes y futuras en el campo. Los temas de EFE incluyen perspectivas históricas, español con fines académicos, análisis de género, discurso y corpus para fines investigativos y pedagógicos, lexicografía, traductología, traducción, diseño curricular y evaluación de habilidades y programas, integración de EFE en cursos generales de español, enseñanza de la competencia intercultural, enseñanza de hablantes de herencia y aprendices de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: español para fines específicos

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Over the past two decades, Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Community Service Learning (CSL) in the United States (US) have gained traction in post-secondary institutions. Abbott and Lear (2010) established that CSL provides excellent opportunities for students to meet the National Foreign Language Standards. After establishing a brief historical overview of programs and research in the fields of Spanish LSP and CSL, this paper provides an overview of core issues facing the field, i.e., the need to (1) focus LSP on a new specific purpose (foundational training in professionalism) (i.e., those linguistic abilities, behaviors, skills, and manners that are vital to all professions in the target culture), (2) thread this training in professionalism throughout the curriculum (from basic language, to majors, to graduate students...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: traducción

Resumen:

This article argues for translation as a fifth skill in language learning and for its integration in a systematic, purposeful, and informed manner in the Spanish language curriculum, with special attention to the situation in the United States. After reviewing the relevant literature in the fields of translation studies (TS) and language acquisition and teaching, we contend that a narrow, specialized, and one-dimensional view of translation, on the translation side, and a rigid ban on the use of the native language on the part of the SLA/teaching community prevented a fruitful integration of translation in the second language (L2) classroom. A broader conceptual definition of translation as cross-linguistic language mediation provides for a much more promising interaction. Taking this conceptual basis as the point of departure, the...

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