Linguistic Training Research Articles

Co-creation of migrant health interventions in Portugal: Insights from the VO(I)CES project

Abstract Background International migration is increasing both globally and in Europe, highlighting the need for responsive interventions that cater to the diverse needs and strengths of migrants. Although genuine involvement of stakeholders in the design and implementation of interventions is vital to enhance their relevance, responsiveness, and ownership, co-created migrant health interventions remain limited. This study aims to address this gap by collaboratively developing health literacy interventions with meaningful involvement from migrants and professionals from both the social and health sectors. Methods As part of the VO(I)CES project, twelve idea-generation workshops were conducted in Portugal, applying the Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access) process, engaging over 70 stakeholders (migrants, social and healthcare professionals). To guide discussions, these workshops used case vignettes developed from 16 health literacy profiles that were identified in a previous study among 1,126 migrants. The discussions aimed at eliciting detailed insights into the potential actions that are responsive to migrants’ challenges. Results Several key interventions were identified by the stakeholders, including the enhancement of cultural and linguistic training for healthcare providers, the use of community health agents/mediators to improve service delivery and community engagement, and the creation and dissemination of multilingual, multi-format health information materials. Specific interventions for groups experiencing increased vulnerabilities such as pregnant women were also proposed, alongside suggestions for creating citizen spaces and improving digital skills among healthcare staff. Conclusions The co-creation approach facilitated the development of tailored context-specific interventions that are anticipated to enhance health literacy, improve healthcare accessibility, and promote health equity for migrants. Key messages • Ideas Generation Workshops provide a platform for a wide range of groups to have their say and know their voice is being heard. • Co-creation tailors interventions to diverse needs, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.

Machine-Based and Auditory Identification of Slavic Languages

This paper presents a comparison of auditory and machine-based identification of linguistic origins. Two studies were conducted to assess the ability of lay listeners and a stateof-the-art machine approach to identify Slavic L1 from delexicalized speech samples. The first study involved 228 native speakers of the four Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Russian) who had not received any prior training in Slavic philology, phonetics, linguistics, or forensic science. Their task was to identify the linguistic origins of speakers when exposed to limited phonetic cues. The stimuli consisted of meaningless logatomes to control for the lexical information. The second study employed machine-based identification of a spoken language, based on two distinct approaches: (1) formant structure of phonetic signal and (2) a neural network and vector representation of speech samples. The data showed that Slavic native speakers, even when exposed to limited auditory cues, are able to identify speakers’ L1s. Interestingly, in the context of the Bulgarian language, the machine-based identification method performed better than the lay listeners. The results of the experiments provide insight into the advantages of hybrid approaches in investigations related to LADO (Language Analyses for the Determination of Origin). Furthermore, the outcomes of this comparison may contribute to the debate on the involvement of native speakers in L1 identification procedures for closely related languages.

Organization of training in written business communication in Chinese in the professional training of bachelor linguists

In recent years, Russian-Chinese relations have been actively developing in various directions, which increases the need for linguists who speak Chinese. Written business communication occupies an important place in their professional activities, and this must be taken into account in the learning process. The relevance of further scientific and theoretical understanding of this problem and the development of effective teaching methods remains. The purpose of the study is to identify which features of the official business style of the Chinese language should be taken into account in teaching Bachelor of Linguistics written business communication. The materials of the study were works covering various aspects of Chinese language teaching. The main research methods are observation, theoretical analysis of sources, study of pedagogical experience, and questionnaires. The conducted research made it possible to identify the features of the official business style that should be taken into account in training. The texts of this style are characterized by logic, clarity of presentation, conciseness, coherence, standard structure, etc. From a linguistic point of view, they are distinguished by the presence of terminology, stable phrases and cliches, abbreviations, the use of full-fledged, expanded sentences with separate turns. They reflect the peculiarities of the country's business culture. Within the framework of the official business style, there are sub-styles and genres, one of which is business writing. It has structural and substantive specifics, lexical, grammatical, syntactic and stylistic features. The practical significance of the research consists in the development of a set of training exercises aimed at teaching writing business letters in Chinese. One of the tools proposed by the author was the use of supports that comprehensively represent the features of different types of business letters in Chinese and contain the most significant information necessary for conducting business correspondence. В последние годы российско-китайские отношения активно развиваются по различным направлениям, что повышает потребность в специалистах-лингвистах, владеющих китайским языком. Важное место в их профессиональной деятельности занимает письменное деловое общение, и это необходимо учитывать в процессе обучения. Сохраняется актуальность дальнейшего научно-теоретического осмысления данной проблемы и разработки эффективной методики обучения. Цель исследования – выявить, какие особенности официально-делового стиля китайского языка следует учитывать в обучении бакалавров-лингвистов письменному деловому общению. Материалами исследования стали работы, освещающие различные аспекты обучения китайскому языку. Основные методы исследования: наблюдение, теоретический анализ источников, изучение педагогического опыта, анкетирование. Проведенное исследование позволило выявить особенности официально-делового стиля, которые следует учитывать в обучении. Для текстов данного стиля характерны логичность, ясность изложения, лаконичность, связность, стандартность структуры и др. С лингвистической точки зрения их отличает наличие терминологии, устойчивых оборотов и клише, аббревиатур, использование полносоставных, развернутых предложений с обособленными оборотами. В них находят свое отражение особенности деловой культуры страны. В рамках официально-делового стиля выделяют подстили и жанры, одним из которых является деловое письмо. Оно имеет структурную и содержательную специфику, лексические, грамматические, синтаксические и стилистические особенности. Практическая значимость исследования состоит в разработке комплекса тренировочных упражнений, направленных на обучение написанию деловых писем на китайском языке. Одним из средств, предложенных автором, стало использование опор, комплексно представляющих особенности разных видов деловых писем на китайском языке и содержащих наиболее значимую информацию, необходимую для ведения деловой переписки.

“Just for the Sake of Comparison”. Some Thoughts on Batchelor’s Linguistic Skills and the Validity of His Ainu Language Data

When describing John Batchelor’s Ainu language data, it is a trope in the field to dismiss them out of hand due to Batchelor’s lack of linguistic training. Some specialists, however, consider such a statement an exaggeration. Whereas it is undeniable that the Ainu texts composed by Batchelor for indoctrination purposes are less than satisfactory, excerpts of oral tradition recorded by him (or under his supervision) are as good as those which have been gathered in more recent times in full agreement with contemporary linguistic conventions. In order to show that this is indeed the case, the author compares the text of an oral composition which has come down to us in two versions: one by Batchelor, the other by Bronisław Piłsudski. It turns out that both versions are virtually the same. Since Piłsudski’s linguistic skills have been universally praised (and rightly so), it naturally follows that there exist instances like the present one when Batchelor’s Ainu language data must be approached with more respect than it is usually done.

The Essence and Implementation of Ideological and Political Education within College English Curricula: A Grounded Theory Analysis

This study employs a grounded theory approach to critically analyze the essence and implementation of Ideological and Political Education (IPE) within College English curricula at Chinese universities. Analyzing 80 award-winning lesson plans from the "Teaching Star Competition" organized by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, this research delineates the specific elements that constitute IPE and identifies the instructional methodologies through which it is integrated into language education. The findings highlight how IPE strategically merges linguistic training with civic education, aiming to cultivate a strong national identity and cultural pride while simultaneously enhancing students' global competencies. The core categories of IPE include critical thinking, professional ethics, and cross-cultural communication skills, all of which are supported by the innovative use of technological resources and adaptive pedagogical strategies. The study also details the comprehensive assessment mechanisms in place that evaluate both cognitive and affective outcomes, showcasing the multidimensional nature of IPE. This research contributes to the discourse on the integration of ideological education in Chinese higher education settings. This study not only clarifies the theoretical underpinnings of IPE but also offers practical insights into its operationalization, thereby guiding educational strategies aimed at achieving comprehensive educational objectives. The findings have implications for future curriculum development and educational policy reform, suggesting ways to enhance the effectiveness of IPE in fostering well-rounded individuals capable of contributing to both national and global contexts.

Analysis of the Operational Application of Military Capabilities in Counterinsurgency within a Military Operations Other than War Framework in the Papua Region

The military plays a key role in Indonesia’s fight against armed separatist -insurgent groups. Not only that is it mandated by law, the military’s involvement in counterinsurgency is also necessitated by practical demands and the nature of the conflict where separatist insurgents would often utilize guerilla warfare attacks such as exploitation of terrain to ambush security force positions. Other than the ability to inflict lethal force, the military also possess “soft” capabilities needed to win hearts & minds and facilitate the implementation of government policies. This study aims to analyze the operational application of military capabilities in counterinsurgency within an MOOTW framework in Papua. This article utilized a qualitative research design with a deductive analysis method where the researcher seeks to deductively analyze the data collected by understanding and studying theories from various literatures related to the research topic and then critically analyzing the data to answer the research questions as it pertains to the utilization Indonesia’s military capabilities as means within an operational plan to implement the counterinsurgency strategy, as well as the challenges in conducting such operations & the relative limitations of the capabilities of the Indonesian military that can be utilized. The results of this study found that the military capabilities are applied in territorial, intelligence, and combat/ enforcement operations. The challenges to the operational application include lack of cultural competence, actionable intelligence, unified command, as well as suitable metrics. In conclusion, the military supports the implementation of government policy in Papua via territorial, intelligence, and combat/ enforcement operations with significant impediments including lack of intelligence, cultural/ linguistic competence, metrics, and a unified command. To improve this, the military needs to provide cultural/ linguistic training, enable point persistent surveillance, stand up a unified structure to coordinate intelligence, and implement viable metrics to assess progress.

Cognitive vs. Linguistic Training in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Exploring Their Effectiveness on Verbal Short-Term Memory and Verbal Working Memory.

The present study explores comparatively the effectiveness of a cognitive (verbal short-term memory (vSTM), verbal working memory (vWM)) and of a linguistic training (10-week duration each) in the diffusion of gains in cognitive abilities (vSTM and vWM) of in school-aged Greek-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD). To this purpose, two computerized training programs i.e., a linguistic and a cognitive one, were developed and applied to three groups (A, B, and C) of children with DLD (N = 49, in total). There were three assessments with two vSTM tasks (non-word repetition and forward digit span) and a vWM task (backward digit span): pre-therapeutically (time 1), where no significant between-group differences were found, post-therapeutically I (time 2), and post-therapeutically II (time 3) and two training phases. In phase Ι, group A received meta-syntactic training, whereas group B vSTM/vWM training and group C received no training. In phase ΙΙ, a reversal of treatment was performed for groups A and B: group A received vSTM/vWM while group B meta-syntactic training. Again, group C received no training. Overall, the results indicated a significant performance improvement for the treatment groups and revealed beneficial far-transfer effects as language therapy can affect vSTM and vWM in addition to direct and near transfer effects. In addition, the intervention type order affected performance as follows: first, better performance on the vSTM task (non-word repetition) was shown when the linguistic treatment was delivered first; second, better performance on the vWM in Time 2 and Time 3 was shown by group B, for which the cognitive treatment was delivered first. Concluding, not only intervention type but also intervention type order can affect performance in DLD.

Foreign language as an element of professionalism of medical workers

High-quality medical care and effective public health are impossible without adequate staffing. Modern medicine is subject to the trends of globalization and internationalization, like many other industries and spheres of the national economy, and today both doctors and nurses often provide medical care to foreign-speaking citizens: tourists, migrants, refugees, foreign students, etc. The article provides an overview of publications reflecting the importance of linguistic training and knowledge of foreign languages for medical professionals.

Researchers Training Researchers: Ethics Training in Quantitative Applied Linguistics

AbstractThis forum piece reports on a brief survey of current quantitative research ethics training materials in Applied Linguistics (AL). This survey was conducted as a step towards an increased understanding of the ways in which we, as a field, train students and researchers to conduct quantitative research ethically. The survey was carried out in the process of creating research ethics training materials as part of a grant‐funded project related to questionable research practices (QRPs). Through manual and computer‐assisted searches in twenty‐four textbooks and twenty‐three course syllabi from the past five years, three themes emerged: (1) research ethics is most often conceptualized in terms of IRB‐related topics, (2) when ‘ethical gray‐zone’ issues are mentioned, the focus is primarily on methodological transparency, data sharing/open science, and selecting the appropriate research design and statistical tests, and (3) materials tend to address the topic of research ethics in a single section or chapter, or in a single day or week of a course. Against this background, we provide three recommendations that our field can implement to provide more robust and thorough research ethics training for students and researchers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics: (1) expand our conceptualization of research ethics to include ethical gray‐zone issues, (2) be thorough and explicit in our discussion of ethical issues related to research decisions, and (3) incorporate research ethics as a recurring theme throughout textbooks and courses.

The model of future philologists linguistic professional training for foreign language communication in the field of speechwriting and business administration

Introduction. The process of globalization covers all spheres of life of the modern society. The volume of intercultural communication is significantly increasing. The number of business contacts between various industrial enterprises is growing. Due to the fact that the international partnership requires coordination and communication planning, the tasks of training specialists competent in the field of business communication, including foreign-language ones, are updated. One needs appropriate training for mastering the skills to formulate one’s idea correctly, to express it clearly and briefly, including the choice of the appropriate tone and format, the language units. You should also master the skills to analyze the received information, interpret the meaning and relevance. Knowledge, skills of foreign-language business communication is an important professional quality that is necessary for specialists involved in speechwriting and business administration. The purpose of the study is to present a projected model for training students in the field of Philology, whose profile is Speechwriting Business Administration for the implementation of business foreign language communication. There is a revealed contradiction between the insufficient development of theoretical and methodological grounds for the formation of the universal competence in the field of business foreign-language communication of the future bachelor in the field of speechwriting and business administration, on the one hand, and a social order for a competent bachelor of this profile, on the other hand. It conditioned the relevance of the study on planning the model of linguistic training, which allows future bachelors in the field of speechwriting and business administration to master successfully the universal competencies, primarily in the field of foreign-language business communication. In this we see the relevance of the study. Materials and methods. The regulatory documentation, scientific literature of domestic and foreign scientists on the problem of the research was studied and analyzed. The methodological foundations of the study are a set of approaches: competent, system-activity, communicative, professional-oriented. In the work we use theoretical research methods – analysis (the analysis of scientific literature and basic pedagogical concepts), synthesis, generalization, modeling. Study results. The study conducted by the authors made it possible to design a model of future bachelors, foreignlanguage and linguo-professional training in the field of speechwriting and business administration. It is aimed at mastering the universal competence in the process of studying a foreign language. The characteristics of the main structural blocks of the model (target, theoretical and methodological, meaningful, technological, diagnostic and effective) are presented. Conclusion. The further direction of the study was determined: the identification of the effectiveness of the developed model in the process of experimental training of future bachelors in the field of Philology, whose profile is Speechwriting and Business Administration.

European Union politicians debating European language education policy

The European Union’s (EU) high regard for multilingualism and linguistic diversity is expressed through its language education policy (LEP), a policy adopted by the European Parliament, which represents all EU member states. However, as education falls within the remit of the member states, EU LEP has an advisory function only. Support for the LEP at national level is thus crucial. By analysing a significant parliamentary discussion by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), this article asks what evidence there is that MEPs support the EU’s goals of learning the mother tongue plus two foreign languages (1+2), and of learning a diversity of languages at school. Secondly, the article investigates current evidence of the success of EU LEP in terms of developing dual language capacities, and of maintaining diversity in language learning. Figures on the learning of two languages, on the learning of English, and on linguistic diversity are compared, covering the last decade. The results reveal that although the training of dual linguists has stagnated, no MEP expressed concerns that the EU goals of 1+2 are not being met. MEPs are, however, concerned with protecting ‘their’ national languages, and the smaller ‘their’ own language(s), the more so. Furthermore, only representatives of large EU languages express concern over English dominance in the EU’s education systems. Thus, parliamentary representatives of smaller languages unite in solidarity for greater status recognition of their language, while MEPs’ support for the EU LEP goal of 1+2 is at best patchy. The article concludes that, given the limited remit of EU LEP, discrepancies between European recommendations and national practices are somewhat inevitable, and that to improve on the 1+2 goal and counter English dominance across education systems in the EU, member states need to be better supported to appreciate and disseminate the rationales for dual language learning (1+2) and diversity in language learning.

Integration of scientific cognition in Kazakh philology: the chronotopic approach

The article discusses the use of the chronotopic approach in Kazakh philology. This approach integrates scholarly knowledge and the works of researchers from the last century. The purpose of the publication is to show how linguistic judgments are cyclical and how they contribute to the multidimensional understanding of language. The article aims to transform the experiences of the humanities into linguistic synchronous-diachronic combinations. This involves predicting the mutual influence of individual scientific views and their categorical integrity. The works of Kazakh researchers from the first half of the twentieth century, who underwent general linguistic training, reveal judgments about the role of language in social, ethnic, and socio-cultural realities. These judgments define a progressive understanding of language as an element of literary-ethical, moral-axiological, and spiritual-cognitive interpretations. It is advisable to consider the formation of cognitive principles of linguistic analysis in the context of spatiotemporal categories. This emphasizes the importance of cyclicity as an element of ideological evolution and scientific attitudes. The connection between past and present, preserving the progression of origin and development, becomes a source of rethinking initial judgments. The cognitive paradigm in Kazakh linguistics is chronologically systematized and reasonably synchronized with modern trends in linguistics. The article characterizes chronotopic in Kazakh linguistics as a set of historical-philosophical, literarycultural, and psychological understandings of the nature of language. The starting point of this approach is the ontological, epistemological, and linguistic dichotomy of knowledge, which determines the mechanism for constructing periodicity and rhythm in the linguistic society. The article uses comparative and historical linguistics, narrative analysis, and chronotopic reading methods. It emphasizes the need to study the spiral characteristic of the linguistics categories by focusing on the dynamics of the development of anthropocentric language features.

That means something to me: How linguistic and emotional experience affect the acquisition, representation, and processing of novel abstract concepts.

We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the novel abstract concepts. Feature production after training showed that specifically emotion features enriched the emotional concepts' representations. Unexpectedly, for participants engaging in vivid mental imagery during training a higher semantic richness of the acquired emotional concepts slowed down lexical decisions. Rephrasing, in turn, promoted a better learning and processing performance than imagery, probably due to stronger established lexical associations. Our results confirm the importance of emotional and linguistic experience and additional deep lexico-semantic processing for the acquisition, representation, and processing of abstract concepts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

SOME METHODS OF SHAPING OF THE RHETORICAL SPEECH GENRES IN THE LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL STUDENTS ON THE RUSSIAN CLASSES

The article analyzes the issues of methodology of training Russian language of international students in medical educational programs. Special attention is paid to the role of text as an effective learning tool, which is an important aspect of this field of work. The text is considered in the context of the communicative method and represents the result of speech activity and oral reproduction of speech in situations where different speech genres are used. The research focuses on the importance of including rhetorical speech genres in the foreign linguistic training of Russian language of the first and second year medical students in Kokshetau Shokan Ualikhanov University. The authors suggest that this approach contributes to successful communication in educational and future professional spheres. Modern speech genres for foreign language students are presented. The subject matter of these genres is determined by the peculiarities of students' linguistic picture of the world. In the process of transition from the first to the second year of study the main components of speech genres in the student's linguistic consciousness were revealed. The results of the comparison of the peculiarities of the use of rhetorical speech genres by international students of Medicine School in the educational and professional spheres at the initial stage of activity are also presented. Key words: speech genre, rhetorical genre, text, discourse, model, training content.

Stories and words online regional dialect corpus collection

Online data collection allows for access to diverse populations. In the current study, we used online recruitment and data collection methods to obtain a corpus of read short stories, real English words, and nonwords from adult talkers representing three authentic regional dialects of American English and one novel accent. The authentic dialects are New England, Northern, and Southern American English and are each represented by 8–10 talkers, ranging in age from 22 to 75 years old. The novel accent was produced by five Spanish-English bilinguals with training in linguistics, who were asked to produce Spanish /o/ in an otherwise English segmental context. The four target varieties each contain one vowel pair of interest, in which the vowels within the pair are relatively more ambiguous than in the other varieties. Each talker produced one familiar short story (e.g., Goldilocks and the Three Bears) with 40 tokens of each vowel within the target pair for their dialect, as well as a set of real words and nonwords that represent both the target vowel pair for their dialect and the other three vowel pairs for comparison across dialects. All corpus materials are available to the scholarly community.

대졸 청년층의 정부고용정책 참여 여부에 따른 노동시장 성과분석

Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of the labor market according to whether col-lege graduates participate in government employment policies. In this study, the government's employment poli-cy is Korea’s Training Credit Programs and the Youth Job-Seeking Activity Subsidy. The labor market performance consisted of employment status, employment type, job size, wages, and job satisfaction through a review of pre-vious studies.
 Methods The population of the study is college graduates between the ages of 26 and 34. However, since there is a limit to conducting research on the entire population, this study utilized 2019GOMS among the data of the College Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey(GOMS) provided by the Korea Employment Information Service. Excluding missing values, the final targets were 948 people with the Korea’s Training Credit Programs and 964 people with Youth Job-Seeking Activity Subsidy. For data analysis, logistic regression analysis and least squares regression analysis, including propensity score matching, were conducted using the Stata 17.0 program. At this time, individual characteristic factors(gender, age), employment activity factors(linguistic training, certificate), and school characteristic factors(university type, university location, major) were dummized and put into control variables.
 Results As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that neither policy(Korea’s Training Credit Programs, Youth Job-Seeking Activity Subsidy) had a positive effect on labor market performance according to participation.
 Conclusions Therefore, in this paper, I would like to review the results of the government's employment policy that did not have a positive effect on labor market performance, and to identify and present the causes. This is ex-pected to play an important role in future employment policy operation and research.

Towards Enhancing Linguistic Proficiency in Maritime Education: A Study of Cadets' Perspectives at the Maritime Institute Jakarta

This research delves into the perspectives of 240 Semester 3 cadets at the Maritime Institute Jakarta (STIP Jakarta) regarding the establishment of a standardized maritime language for effective communication at sea. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the study integrates document analysis and self-administered surveys to unravel the nuanced dynamics of linguistic proficiency in the maritime context. The findings reveal a perceived gap between academic training and practical linguistic challenges, prompting recommendations for the integration of simulated scenarios and immersive training methods into the curriculum. Motivation emerges as a critical influencer of linguistic competences, necessitating a paradigm shift in linguistic training methodologies that connect linguistic development to the broader narrative of professional identity. Anticipation of communication challenges during internships highlights the immediate need for industry-responsive linguistic training. Collaborative efforts between educational institutions and industry stakeholders, along with the incorporation of real-world examples, are recommended to enhance the preparedness of cadets for diverse communication scenarios in their professional roles. This study contributes nuanced insights to the discourse on maritime education, emphasizing the need for a dynamic and experiential approach to linguistic training that aligns with the evolving demands of the maritime industry. The identified themes and recommendations provide a roadmap for curriculum enhancement and pedagogical refinement, ensuring that maritime education remains responsive and effective in preparing cadets for the complexities of real-world communication at sea.

ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF TRAINING LINGUISTS USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This article analyzes the current state of linguists' education with an emphasis on the use of information technologies in the educational process. In the modern world, information technology has become an integral part of education, and linguistics is no exception. The article examines various aspects of the use of information technology in teaching linguists, including online resources, computer programs, artificial intelligence and other innovative methods. The author of the article analyzes the current trends and challenges faced by students and teachers of linguistic programs when integrating information technologies into the educational process. The article also examines the benefitsthat can be obtained from the use of modern technologies in the training of linguists, such as improving the availability of educational materials, improving the effectiveness of teaching and developing research skills in the field of linguistics. In conclusion, the article provides recommendations for educational institutions and teachers of linguistics on the optimal use of information technologies in the educational process in order to provide a better and modern education for future linguists.

Going the Extra Mile: Improving Linguistic Quality in Translation

In this century, the rise in mother-tongue speaker driven projects has led to the downplaying of the importance of linguistics. Many projects operate on the assumption that linguistic training is unnecessary for mother-tongue translators. There is documented evidence though that many translators are strongly influenced by a high prestige source text while drafting. In South Asia at least, a large number of organizations are doing translation, and not all of them value linguistic training. I contend that a more realistic solution is to have translation consultants pick up the slack by looking for language-related issues in the draft. In my research, I examined renderings of NT passages in eight South Asian language projects covering different language families. Of the 82 consultant note subcategories taught in training workshops, I restricted my review to 24 that deal especially with linguistic issues. The results show that the reviewing consultants detected only 3% – 20% of the issues that I found. I demonstrate tools for consultants to examine the actual draft even if they do not know the language. I also discovered that many potential errors are influenced by the forms of the classical regional language versions used as model texts. The issues discovered affect quality in two ways: naturalness and pragmatic accuracy. Looking for these potential errors is worth the extra time and effort on the part of the consultants, who can be easily trained for this enhanced review process.

Dans les soutes de la mondialisation : les insécurités langagières des travailleurs d’en bas

In the great upheavals of globalization, this article will focus on those who are not directly involved in this great movement. These include migrants. For them, the most useful language is that of survival, both social and professional. In this context, we will focus on the training demands that emanate from certain professional fields in France, formulated in the urgency of economic and human situations that concern the public employment actors, the training structures and of course the learners/workers themselves. Indeed, certain economic sectors are under pressure, in the sense that they are struggling to recruit. Recourse to migrant labour is therefore one of the solutions, but, in most cases, the question of mastering the language of the host country in oral and/or written form arises,. Didactic solutions must be found on a case-by-case basis, in a very precise and specific way. In order to describe and analyse this situation, the article will be based on two experiences of technical and linguistic training in two vocational training fields: i) catering and ii) building and public works.