20.500.12556/RUL-179992 Who does it better? Comparing L1 to L2 translation results between foreign language students and translation students The translation market is often characterised by a diverse group of translators, which includesthose withformal education in translationand those who study foreign languages. Foreign language study programmes in Slovenia have on occasion claimedto prepare students for the Slovenian translation market in a similar way to translation programmes;however,a previous study has shownthat this is not the case in translation from a foreign language into Slovenian. The study reported on here set out to uncover anydifferences in skills between the students of translation as opposed toforeign language programmes. The study focused ontheir ability to translate from Slovenian into a second language (L2), as this is an expected skill on the translation market. In the article, we first compare three foreign language study programmes and a translation study programmein terms oftranslation into an L2. Secondly, we present the results of translation quality assessment of translations from Slovenian into an L2 (English, German and Italian). The results show that thetwo groups ofstudents approached and performed the task differently, in several of the analysed categories, highlighting the role of translation training and enhancement of L1 competence for the development of translation competence. foreign language students translation students translation quality assessment translation into L2 L1 competence študenti tujih jezikov študenti prevajanja vrednotenje kakovosti prevoda prevajanje iz maternega v tuji jezik jezikovne kompetence v maternem jeziku true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-02-27 11:44:32 2026-02-27 11:44:35 2026-02-28 04:43:37 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 68–84 no. 1 Vol. 18 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-01 81'25 1836-9324 10.12807/ti.118201.2026.a05 269908483 RAZ_Zlatnar_Moe_Marija_2026.pdf RAZ_Zlatnar_Moe_Marija_2026.pdf 1 9D839F1540EF88518718871D08EAA164 69f37c937ae581f9880c8f21cb7028f95dca4d2e6b8f988dfba1b3cbb5862671 ce83a034-13c9-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=228982 https://trans-int.org/index.php/transint/article/view/1312 1 fc2b4bef-13c8-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=228980 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0