Teaching Translation through Gender Topics: Adapting the Instructional Design of an Introductory Translation Course

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Published: Jan 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.4
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gender approach, formative research, translator training, competencebased learning

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Iván Villanueva Jordán
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Silvia Calderón Díaz
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

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his article presents the teaching-learning experience derived from the introductory course of English into Spanish translation from the undergraduate translation program at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. It will describe the way this course started including gender topics in its instructional design considering the learning outcomes of the program and adapting the learning activities and the texts used in class. The main strategies used for planning and executing the course will also be presented. The article starts by introducing Peru’s political context in 2016, when the initiative of including gender topics in the introductory translation course first arose. A brief description of the course then follows in order to present (1) the translation competencies, the learning outcomes of the course and how these could be linked to formative research and gender topics; (2) the source texts selection and the criteria for designing learning activities. The article concludes with a discussion about the efficiency of the course redesign including gender topics and the instructors and students’ perception resulting from this experience.

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Villanueva Jordán, I., & Calderón Díaz, S. (2020). Teaching Translation through Gender Topics: Adapting the Instructional Design of an Introductory Translation Course. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (11), 109–129. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.4
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No. 11 (2019): Porque algo tiene que cambiar. La formación de traductores e intérpretes: presente & futuro
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Author Biographies

Iván Villanueva Jordán, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

Iván Villanueva Jordán is the coordinator of the Translation and Interpretation Program at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. He holds a B. A. in Translation, and an M. A. in Cultural Studies. He has been a Visiting Professor of Translation (English into Spanish) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is preparing his doctoral dissertation on the translation of gay masculinities in audiovisual products under the supervision of Professor Frederic Chaume, at Universitat Jaume I (Castellon, Spain).

Silvia Calderón Díaz, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

Silvia Calderón Díaz graduated in Anthropology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She works for PUCP’s Centro de Investigación y Sercicios Educativos, as a trainer in educational research methods for university instructors. She also works as a research instructor for the Translation and Interpretation Program at UPC. She holds and M. A. in Cultural Studies and is currently a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru).

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