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Sonia Colina, PhD


SONIA COLINA
Associate Professor
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Languages 545
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Ph: (520) 621-3798|Fax: (520) 621-6104
E-mail: scolina@email.arizona.edu

 

Areas of Research Interest:

Translation Studies, Translation and Applied Linguistics, Translation Pedagogy, Translator Training and Testing, Second Language Acquisition in Translator Training, Medical Translation.

Selected Publications:

2003. Translation Teaching: From Research To The Classroom. New York, San Francisco: McGraw Hill. 2002.

"Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies". The Translator 8 (1): 1-24. 2002.

“Towards an Empirically-based Translation Pedagogy”in Baer, Brian, Geoff Koby, Fanny Arango Keeth, and Sharon Bell, eds. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy, American Translators Association Monograph Series, Vol. XII. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1999.

“Transfer and Unwarranted Transcoding in the Acquisition of Translational Competence: An Empirical Investigation”in Vandaele, Jeroen, ed. "Translation and the (Re)location of Meaning" Selected Papers of the CERA Research Seminars in Translation Studies. Leuven. 375-391. 1997.

"Syntax, Discourse Analysis and Translation Studies." Babel 43 (2): 126-137. 1997. "Contrastive Rhetoric and Text-typological Conventions in Translation Teaching." Target. 9 (2): 353-371. 1997.

" Teaching Translation to Undergraduates: What Errors Reveal." Translation XVI (3): 245-256.

Professional Affiliations:

Member, American Translators Association (ATA)
Member, American Translation Studies Association (ATSA)
Executive Committee, American Translation Studies Association (ATSA)
Member, Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Member, Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)
Member, Arizona Interpreters and Translators Association (AITA).
Member, Advisory Board, the Arizona Initiative, National Center for Interpretation Research, University of Arizona

 

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