학부 문화번역 수업에서 기계번역을 활용한 교육방안 모색

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore how the undergraduate translation course should incorporate more training in cultural aspects. The English novel, Pachinko, was used as a translation practice text in the cultural translation class, and machine translation (MT) was applied as a learning instrument. Pachinko was published in the United States in 2017 by Korean American author Min Jin Lee, and tells the story of four generations of Korean-Japanese family members from the Japanese colonial period to the 1980s after liberation. The novel includes a large number of culture-specific items (CSI) related to Korea, as a result the machine-translated text has many errors. The students discuss what types of CSI are found in the source text (ST), and learn how to better translate these cultural elements in Pachinko's MT results. This study presents three effective methods to educate undergraduate students in cultural translation class. First, the concept of culture and CSI should be more clearly taught. Second, the source text (ST) must be thoroughly explained in order that students can discuss the cultural elements that are not explicitly expressed in the text. Third, students should be educated to find implied contextual information in cultural text. This study has shown that MT can be used as a learning instrument to expand students' thoughts on translation.