INGLÊS PARA FINS TRADUTOLÓGICOS NA UFPB

Abstract

When considering the translator training, it is important to have in mind that there might be the foreign language teaching-learning in the curricula proposed by higher education institutions. In this study, as I believe and agree with several authors (BRIKS, 2018; GOMES, 2019, 2020; HURTADO ALBIR, 1999; LIENDO, 2015) that there is a research gap, I present a brief bibliographical and documentary investigation in relation to the teaching-learning process of English as a foreign language in the bachelor’s degree in Translation at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Therefore, my main objectives are to describe what languages for translation purposes are, especially English for translation purposes (ETP), as well as to investigate them in this specific undergraduate course. Firstly, I focus on English for specific purposes, as it is the theoretical basis of this research. After that, I explain what is understood by ETP. Finally, I present how this teaching-learning process takes place at UFPB, analysing, from a bibliographical and documental investigation, whether this approach is adopted in a systematic, tangential, or indifferent way. I conclude that – although the bachelor’s degree is constituted as an initial training for professional translators in which the theoretical and practical aspects, despite being interdisciplinary, try to disassociate themselves from the strong links to linguistic-literary training present in undergraduate courses in Letters – the foreign language teaching-learning courses in this programme is essentially interdisciplinary, relying both on Applied Linguistics and on Applied Translation for its conception and performance in the classroom. However, the approach present in ESP is adopted in an involuntary and tangential way, as there is no explicit mention of it in any reference.