Cutting Edge Culture for Novice Translators

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The article briefly explores the rationale for requiring certain types of activities from novice translation students. Three groups of such activities are presented: imitation, analysis and application, each followed by a brief discussion of its effectiveness when used with first-year students in the Translation Programme at the Pedagogical Faculty, University of Maribor.

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“…Stacey Harwood demonstrates how learners can improve their language and literary abilities by writing parody song lyrics in "Fractured Song Lyrics" (2009). Michelle Gadpaille uses a similar technique to encourage students to write prose poems based on advertisements and asks the students to analyze their responses (Gadpaille 2011(Gadpaille , 2005. In my writing courses, I use sample assignments from Campbell and Brody's Rock and Roll: An Introduction (1999) to get students to write lyrics to simple blues songs, as well as well as other assignments to write haikus and even sonnets.…”