REGISTER AND TRANSLATION COMPETENCE ACQUISITION. INVESTIGATING STUDENT ATTITUDES
REGISTER AND TRANSLATION COMPETENCE ACQUISITION. INVESTIGATING STUDENT ATTITUDES

Summary/Abstract: Register and Translation Competence Acquisition. Investigating Student Attitudes. The paper discusses aspects of the translator training process in the context of translation competence acquisition (TCA), a newer field of research in the Romanian context, and focuses on a group of first-year students enrolled in a class on Introduction to Translation Theory and Practice. The course is meant to raise the students’ awareness concerning issues of appurtenance of structures and vocabulary to formal and informal register, and to help students put these into practice in intra- and inter-language translations, with a particular focus on the formal register. The study is a small-scale qualitative research which, through the use of diaries as a research tool, zooms in on the changes of student attitudes towards the development of both register sensitivity and good practices for translators who find themselves at the early stages of their career. The students start from discussing in small groups different translation errors (which occurred in the formal end-of-semester evaluation) and continue with a process of reflection on difficulties to overcome, instruments they make use of and further strategies to develop their translation competence.

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