Presentation 2022-03-13
Translation as an Educational Instrument and Means in Multilingual Societies
Fusa Katada,
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Abstract(in English) Functions and roles of translation change over time and demands of a given field. In recent years, the translation industry took evolutionary advancement through AI-technology, responding to the demands from the fields of intelligence agencies, science and technologies, and business who seek the effectiveness to remove language barriers. The ubiquity of automatic translators and interpreters are now appreciated by anybody including tourists and language learners. This paper takes up another, underrepresented, aspect of translation occurring in multilingual societies. Focusing on one area of the Mindanao Region in the Philippines, it reports translation as a necessary instrument and means to teach children in school and discusses possible disadvantages that children face in developing their conceptual thinking abilities. It claims that such situation exists worldwide and conjectures possible solution which automatic translation technologies may bring in the near future.
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Keyword(in English) Functions of Translatiom / Multilingual Societies / Translation as Educational Means / Language of Education / Functions of Mother-Tongue
Paper # TL2021-43
Date of Issue 2022-03-06 (TL)

Conference Information
Committee TL
Conference Date 2022/3/13(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Theme 1 : Language and Learning, Learning Language, Interpretation, Translation, and Hospitality Communication, Theme 3 : Language Landscape, Language Contact and Language Change
Chair Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Secretary Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Ferris Univ.)
Assistant Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas) / Akio Shimogori(Hakodate-ct)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Translation as an Educational Instrument and Means in Multilingual Societies
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Functions of Translatiom
Keyword(2) Multilingual Societies
Keyword(3) Translation as Educational Means
Keyword(4) Language of Education
Keyword(5) Functions of Mother-Tongue
1st Author's Name Fusa Katada
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda)
Date 2022-03-13
Paper # TL2021-43
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) TL-440
Page pp.pp.62-67(TL),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-03-06 (TL)