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TRACI : The Trainee Translator’s Card IndexA self-made tool for acquiring and enhancing translation competence

Looking at the translation process from a pedagogical perspective we can identify various moments where knowledge deficits (with regard to domain, language and culture, as well as translation theory and methodology) force the novice translator to retrieve information from all kinds of sources. Apart from traditional reference works (dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases etc.), auxiliary texts (parallel texts, background texts, previous translations of the same or similar texts) may be of great help to find out about text-type conventions, domain-related vocabulary (including phraseology, collocations and terminology), or solutions of translation problems. But then the question arises where the information found in these auxiliary texts can be stored systematically in order to be available if the need arises in later tasks. In this paper, we will suggest a combined card index (TRACI) consisting of four parts in one alphabet: one index for linguistic material related to a particular topic, another one for language phenomena of either source or target language, a third one for translation methodology and a fourth for cards based on contrastive terminology work.Apart from serving to store the information extracted from textual sources or elaborated in the translation classroom, the card index is a tool to develop and enhance translational competence(s). It is a personalized tool, tailored to the needs and the level of competence of each student, and it can also stimulate the students’ motivation to enhance their world or cultural knowledge, to look for more texts referring to similar problems and difficulties, and to fill in the gaps which have been left open because a certain text did not provide sufficient information.