Ejemplo de errores de estudiantes de traducción del Lima Institute of Technical Studies (LITS)
Examples of Errors Made by Students in Translation Programmes at Lima Institute of Technical Studies (LITS)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze students’ errors concerning the use of tenses in French. In order to do that, I based my examples on translations done by some students of the undergraduate institution I work for―Institute of Technical Studies (LITS) ―, based in Lima, the capital of Peru. I will analyze errors made by students of the third and fourth academic semester (equivalent to the second year of licence in France) of six academic semesters. Most of these students, with Spanish as their mother tongue, are from Lima, but they are also from different regions of Peru and some of them come from other countries. At first, I will present the current situation for the French language in Peru. Then, I will offer some information about the origin of Spanish, its variations in America, some particularities and regionalisms of Peruvian Spanish. And finally, I will provide a general perspective on the translations carried out in Peru and I will present some translation errors from translation students’ work (language combination French-Spanish). As we all know, there are slight differences between the two languages regarding the use of some tenses: past simple and past perfect. Sometimes, the students do not pay attention to these differences. What is more, they frequently copy the syntax and grammar structures they find in the original text, not taking into account that it could lead them to ambiguity in terms of translation errors, as well as lack of fluidity and naturalness in the translated text.

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