Translating Experience in Language Teaching Research and Practice

Autor/in	Kramsch, Claire
Titel	Translating Experience in Language Teaching Research and Practice
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 41 (2020) 1, S.30-51 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amz011
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Cultural Differences; Language Teachers; Language Research; Japanese; Teacher Student Relationship; Teaching Methods; Cultural Awareness; Chinese; Native Language; Teacher Attitudes; Applied Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Kultureller Unterschied; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Sprachforschung; Japaner; Japanisch; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; China; Chinesen; Lehrerverhalten; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik
Abstract	This article explores the way native language teachers translate their linguistic and cultural experience in order to make it understandable to their students in the classroom. It examines how they report on this translation to researchers in two research projects conducted with two Chinese teachers (Kramsch and Zhang 2018) and one Japanese teacher/researcher (Shibahara and Kramsch forthcoming). Drawing on House (2017) and Pym (2010), it shows how the translation of experience takes place on three levels: the overt level of linguistic equivalence; the covert level of functional equivalence through a cultural filter; and the level of a cultural translation that has to be negotiated according to the subjective needs of the participants. These studies reveal that native language teachers tend to prefer overt over covert translations and that they engage in cultural translation not in order to explore but in order to overcome cultural difference. Such findings confront the field of applied linguistics with its age-old challenge as a field called to translate real-world problems of the practice into the language of research and vice-versa. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01