Who does it better? : Comparing L1 to L2 translation results between foreign language students and translation students

Zlatnar Moe, Marija (avtor), Žigon, Tanja (avtor), Mikolič Južnič, Tamara (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: foreign language students, translation students, translation quality assessment, translation into L2, L1 competence
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: Str. 68–84
• Številčenje: Vol. 18, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179992
• UDK: 81'25
• ISSN pri članku: 1836-9324
• DOI: 10.12807/ti.118201.2026.a05
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269908483
• Datum objave v RUL: 27.02.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Tranǂslation & Interpreting
• Založnik: University of Western Sydney
• ISSN: 1836-9324
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523559449

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: študenti tujih jezikov, študenti prevajanja, vrednotenje kakovosti prevoda, prevajanje iz maternega v tuji jezik, jezikovne kompetence v maternem jeziku

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0265
• Naslov: Medkulturne literarnovedne študije

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0446
• Naslov: Teoretično, opisno in uporabno prevodoslovje