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1、TheInterpreterandTranslatorTrainer4(1),2010,47-88TextualCompetenceandtheUseofCohesionDevicesinTranslatingintoaSecondLanguageDA-HUIDONG&YU-SULANChangJungChristianUniversity,TaiwanAbstract.Thisarticlecomparesthedifferencesintheuseoftextualfeaturesandcohesivedevicesam
2、ongtranslatorswithdifferentlevelsoftranslationcompetence.ThedataareextractedfromaChineseintoEnglishtranslationcorpus,whichconsistsof315translationpassagesproducedby105translators.Thefeaturesanddevicesidentifiedintheliteraturereviewarefirstsubjectedtoaone-wayANOVAan
3、dthenadiscriminantanalysistoyieldthosefeaturesanddevicesstatisticallysalientenoughtodifferentiatetranslationcompetencelevels.TheresultsofthisstudyprovideinsightintoL2translationcompetenceandsuggestanewap-proachtoassessingsuchcompetence.Keywords.ChineseintoEnglishtr
4、anslation,Translationcorpus,Textualcompetence,Cohesivedevices,Discriminantanalysis,Nativeandnon-nativeEnglishspeakers,Translationassessment.1.BackgroundTranslationintothemothertonguehaslongbeenseenasproducingtargettextsofbetterqualitythantranslationintothetranslato
5、r’ssecondlanguage(Baker1992,Kelly1979,Newmark1981,1988,Nida1975,Picken1989).Thisviewis,however,beingchallengedbystudiesintranslationandcloselyrelatedfields,suchasEnglishasaSecondLanguage(ESL)andWritinginaSecondLanguage(Alptekin2002,Bowker2000,Campbell1998,2000,Gros
6、man2000,Kramsch1997,Lonsdale2001,Snell-Hornby2000,Wid-dowson1994,Zaid1999).Thefocusofthisarticleisontheassessmentoftranslationcompetence,wherethetargetlanguageisasecondlanguageofthetranslator.ThecaseofChinesetoEnglishtranslationisspecificallyinvestigated.11Intheint
7、erestsofbrevity,wheretheword‘translation’isusedinthisarticle,itcanbeassumed(unlessotherwisestatedorobviousfromthecontext)thatitmeanstranslationintoEnglishwherethisisasecondlanguageofthetranslator.ISSN:1750-399X©St.JeromePublishing,Manchester48TextualCompetenceandth
8、eUseofCohesionDevicesInordertohelptranslatorstoimprovetheirskillswhentranslatingintotheirsecondlanguage,itisnecessarytodefineandassesscompetencei
