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T1 Sharing knowledge without borders: Collaboration between U.S. business and law students and Spanish translation students
A1 López Arroyo, María Belén
A1 Pizarro Sánchez, Isabel
A1 Moreno Pérez, Leticia
K1 ESP writing
K1 legal translation
K1 collaborative learning
K1 terminological density
K1 5701 Lingüística Aplicada
K1 5701.13 Lingüística Aplicada a la Traducción E Interpretación
K1 trad
AB Collaboration between technical and professional (TP) writers in English as a second language is important for successful communication. This is evident in legal documents in both English and Spanish, where accuracy and clarity are paramount. However, achieving this is challenging because law students often lack effective writing tools, and translation students may lack the required encyclopedic knowledge. The presentpaper describes a co-designed exchange project between U.S. students in business and law and students of legal translation at a university in Spain. This paper aims to determine potential improvements in students’ encyclopedic and conceptual knowledge of this specialized language and their translation performance after the collaboration intervention. To evaluate these aspects, three textual items were targeted: terminological, nominal and, what we call, substitutional density. Our results indicate that peercollaboration helped Spanish students acquire encyclopedic knowledge in the field and avoid repetitive terms in their translations, leading to greater textual cohesion through the use of general language, synonyms and hypernyms. Other aspects of this peer collaboration as well as follow-up approaches to consolidate the observed effects are needed.
SN 2647-4832
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81107
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81107
LA eng
NO Journal of Virtual Exchange, 2024, vol. 7, p. 60-79.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 06-abr-2026