چکیده

In today’s digital era, it is necessary to prepare students for the market by incorporating electronic language resources into classes. The aim of the present study was to use electronic resources and foster collaboration in the translation classrooms to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To this end, in a twenty-session translation course that was offered in a private institute in Tehran, a collaborative teaching technique was implemented. For the first two sessions of the semester, theories on cultural and extralinguistic culture-bound elements including Thriveni’s (2002) and Pederson’s (2005) frameworks were taught. For bridging theory and practice, trainees were asked to find a Wikipedia page that introduces one cultural aspect of Iran that had not been translated into English before. The class was divided into four groups of three students and they were assigned to verify the authenticity of the Wiki page by checking the books and articles in the reference part of the page. In the next step, they were asked to translate the Wiki page by using Google Translator Toolkit. After completing their translation, they were to share their translation with another group by using an option in the Toolkit that is called “share with others.” The groups assessed their classmates’ translation based on the theories they had been taught before. Compared to the traditional read and translate approach, this teaching technique that integrates teacher’s training, collaboration, and electronic resources would have numerous benefits in terms of aptly preparing trainees for the market and providing more comprehensive training.

کليدواژه ها

Collaborative learning, electronic tools, Wikipedia

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Adeleh Mirzaee , 1398 , Teaching Translation collaboratively: Using Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي