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Integrating selected corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialized translation

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This paper looks at the alternation of two complex English noun phrases in scientific English, which poses a challenge to French students in the specialised translation classroom. Indeed, no such alternation is observed in French. Starting from a preliminary study of a first series of constructions, we seek confirmation for generalisations about the constructions’ preferred context of occurrence in a new sample of highly frequent constructions. We then discuss how the results of those analyses can be integrated in the translation classroom, through a new online tool aimed at raising students’ awareness of this contrastive problem and helping them choose one or the other construction according to a set of corpus-based clues.
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hal-01427959 , version 1 (06-01-2017)

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Caroline Rossi, Cécile Frérot, Achille Falaise. Integrating selected corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialized translation. 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. ⟨hal-01427959⟩
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