Formando tradutores para a localização de jogos eletrônicos: em busca de uma abordagem pedagógica

Marileide Dias Esqueda

Authors

Marileide Dias Esqueda Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-7926

Keywords:

translation teaching, collaborative pedagogy, video game translation and localization, open source tools, free translation memory systems

Abstract

Based on the assumption that video game localization inevitably has levels of collaboration among their agents, forming a collaborative continuum that involves localization managers, translators, localization coordinators, and linguistic testers, who directly or indirectly influence the game to be localized, game localization teaching can also adopt a collaborative approach, dynamically promoting experience exchanges between translation teachers and students, and other collaborators. Accordingly, this paper, conceived as a didactic proposal of qualitative and naturalistic bias (GILE, 2009; CHESTERMAN; WILLIAMS, 2002), describes possibilities for incorporating video game localization in translation teaching using a collaborative pedagogical approach (KIRALY, 2000).

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