《buiding a translation competence model》.pdf

PACTE (2003). “Building a Translation Competence Model”. In: Alves, F. (ed.). Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in Process Oriented Research, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Building a Translation Competence Model PACTE GROUP A. Beeby, M. Fernández Rodríguez, O. Fox, A. Hurtado Albir, W. Neunzig, M. Orozco, M. Presas, P. Rodríguez Inés, L. Romero (Principal investigator: Amparo Hurtado Albir) Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona Abstract This chapter presents the translation competence model that is being worked on by the PACTE group and that is the basis for designing the hypotheses of an empirical-experimental study of translation competence. This research is the first stage in a larger project to investigate the process of translation competence acquisition. The first part of the chapter describes our theoretical framework and the first models that we designed in 1998. This is followed by a brief presentation of the design of the research project. The last part of the chapter deals with the modification we have introduced in our 1998 translation competence model as a result of the first exploratory studies. Introduction The PACTE research group (Process in the Acquisition of Translation Competence and Evaluation) was formed in October 1997 to investigate the Acquisition of Translation Competence in written translation into and out of the foreign language (inverse and direct translation). All the founding members