Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies
Program Description
Graduate Profile
Professional translators are characterized by their ability to faithfully transcribe written messages from one language to another, thanks to their understanding of the required lexicons and styles. In addition, they demonstrate a high level of mastery in their working languages and possess extensive extralinguistic and cultural knowledge, with a constant awareness of the need to constantly improve their professional work.
Professional Skills
A) Translation
· To faithfully understand and convey the meaning of a written message from one language to another
· To use the most suitable computational tools and information sources available
Within the field of Translation, the professional translator must have the ability to recognize and comply with the stages of the translation process and be able to solve the problems emerging from this process. To carry out this task, they need to demonstrate competences, at a professional level, in the following areas: written communication; pragmatic and contrastive analysis; expression techniques, and mastery in different cultural codes, both in the source language and the target language.
B) Communication
· To fluently express oneself in oral and written form in the languages used professionally
In the field of Communication, the translator as a linguistic and cultural mediator, has knowledge of languages and cultural elements. This expertise allows them to act in commercial situations or others, such as interactions with foreign clients and interlocutors from other countries at daily work in any labor sector.
C) Interpretation
· To accurately interpret auditory information from one language to another
The translator, in their role as an interpreter, must demonstrate professional mastery in communicative competencies and in their working languages, extralinguistic knowledge, oratory skills, and cognitive abilities necessary for the oral translation process.
D) Research
· To apply linguistic and translation research methodologies
The research process requires starting from one’s own intellectual curiosity, which is demonstrated through the location, selection, processing, and systematization of information. The translator must posses a methodological perspective capable of giving coherence and scientific rigor to the typical working modalities of their tasks.
Cross-Cutting Skills
- Demonstrate ethical-moral behavior in professional and personal performance
- Demonstrate constructive critical spirit
- Establish adequate interpersonal communication
- Perform teamwork
- Self-manage professionally
- Continuously improve as a professional
Contact
Head of the Program:
Prof. Édinson Muñoz Arias
Secretary
Natalia Flores H.
FACULTY TEAM
Our faculty team consists of a total of 10 full-time academics and 31 adjunct academics. Out of a total of 41 academics, 30 posses a postgraduate specializations, corresponding to a 76% of the total. Currently, the team has 11 PhD, 20 Masters and 10 Bachelor degrees.
GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE
The Graduate Studies Committee is the academic entity responsible for the curricular operation of the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program and supports the functions of the Program Director. This entity is comprised by the Head of the Program and the Coordinators of the different curricular areas. The current Graduate Studies Committee is comprised of:
Program Director - Mg. Édinson Muñoz A. (edinson.munoz@usach.cl)
FULL-TIME PROFESSORS
The program includes the participation of 10 full-time academics from the Department of Linguistics and Literature. The academics are ranked as assistant and associate professors, 5 with PhD degree and 5 with Master’s degree. Of the latter, 2 professors are currently pursuing studies to obtain a PhD degree.
Dr (c). Marcela Contreras T.
PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought (The European Graduate School, EGS), Master’s degree in Higher Education Teaching (Universidad Andrés Bello) and English – Spanish Translator (Universidad de Concepción). Since 1994, she works as a freelance translator in the fields of education, productive processes, and medicine (clinical studies). She also has served as lecturer from the English – Spanish Translation area from 2003. Her areas of interest in research are translation training and specialized translation registry.
Dr. Adolfo M. García.
PhD in Literature, Postdoctoral by the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO, Argentina), English teacher and Technical-Scientific English translator. He specializes in language and communication neuroscience. He serves as Associated Investigator at the Faculty of Humanities (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Senior Atlantic Fellow from the Global Brain Health Institute (University of California, San Francisco), CONICET Researcher, Neurolinguistics lecturer (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), honorary member from the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) and High-Level Talent assigned by the Ministry of Science and Technology (China). Additionally, he is the founder and Director of the Master in Language and Cognition program (Universidad Nacional del Cuyo). He is also President of the “Translation, Research, Empiricism, Cognition” (TREC) International Thematic Network. He also took training programs at the University of New York and Rice University (USA). Currently, he coordinates research projects in over 10 countries.
Mg. Riko Iizumi.
Master’s degree in Education, Educational Design and Japanese Language Teaching as a Second Language (Yokohama National University, Japan). She dictates courses of Japanese language, especially Conversational Japanese, Japanese Oral and Written Expression, and Reading Comprehension in Japanese at the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program. Her research is dedicated to the acquisition of second language (ASL), communicative and interactive language teaching methods and the teaching of Japanese culture and language.
Dr. (c) Ángela Morales S.
PhD Candidate in Philology (National University of Distance Education, UNED). Master’s degree in Linguistics with mention in Hispanic Sociolinguistics (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and English-Spanish Translator (Universidad de Concepción). She has offered translation services to national and international companies. In addition, she has a Diploma in University Teaching and Research & Innovation, both from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Lecturer in the Applied Linguistics in English – Portuguese/Japanese Translation Studies program since 2007, where she dictates courses related to Traductology, English - Spanish – English translation practices and English – Spanish Contrastive Grammar. She also acts as Academic Advisor and Translation Coordinator.
Mg. Édinson Muñoz A.
Master’s degree in Linguistics, mention in Hispanic Sociolinguistics (Universidad de Santiago de Chile). Diploma Course in Japanese Teaching as 2nd language (The Japan Foundation Japanese – Language Institute) and University Teaching (Universidad de Santiago de Chile). His research is devoted to comparing syntactic complexity and the cognitive processes involved in the reading of Japanese as 2nd language. He is part of the Latin American Association for Asian and African Studies (ALADAA), and Coordinator of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Administrative Committee in Chile. Currently, he is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program of Experimental Research in Communication & Cognition (PIIEECC), the Department of Linguistics and Literature’s Representative Counsellor in the Faculty Council and member of the Evaluation Committee of Graduate Programs (CEEP). During his career, he served as Director of the Department of Linguistics and Literature twice, his first term on 2017-2019 and the second on 2019-2021.
Dra. Raquel Rubio M.
PhD in Linguistics (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Former researcher at the College of Arts & Science in the University of Tokyo (2001-2006). She has dedicated her career to Spanish and Japanese language teaching in Japan and Chile for over ten years. She also has participated in various Spanish and Japanese teaching congresses. She is a member of the Association of Latin-American Linguistics and Philology (ALFAL), the Japan Association of Hispanists and the Spanish Teaching Research Group (GIDE). Her areas of interests in research are: Teaching of Foreign Languages, Discourse Analysis, Japanese Culture, Interculturality and Language. Currently, she is the Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Linguistics and Literature.
Dr. Néstor Singer C.
PhD in Translation & Intercultural Studies MA TESOL (Teacher Education) from the University of Manchester and Translator with mention in English and Japanese (Universidad de Santiago de Chile). Additionally, he holds a Diploma in Spanish as Second Language (Universidad Católica de Chile) and University Teaching (Universidad de Santiago de Chile). During his academic career, he has worked as English and translation instructor in different educational institutions in Chile, focusing particularly on language teaching for the professional training of translators. His research and publications are focused in the Psychology of Translation, Translator’s Identity and Translation & Second Language Teaching in translation programs. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Program for Experimental Research in Communiaction and Cognition (PIIECC) Pand Associate Member of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) from The University of Manchester. He is the current Director of the Department of Linguistics and Literature (2023-2025).
ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
Our team is composed of 31 adjunct professors to fulfill the program's teaching duties. Out of the 31, 6 have a PhD and 15 a Master's degree, which means that 68% of the total of adjunct professors have postgraduate studies. It is comprised by Government Teachers, Professional Translators and experts in areas related to their respective lectures.
Dr. Eugenia Dos Santos
Dr. Francisco Nazareth
Dr. Helmuth Steil
Dr. Matías Morales
Dr. Mónica Ahumada
Dr. Sixto Yáñez
Mg. Alejandro Contreras
Mg. (c) Andrea Gallardo
Mg. Carlos Velozo
Mg. Claudia Jarpa
Mg. Felipe Moreno
Mg. Jéssica Chávez
Mg. José Luis Poblete
Mg. Karen Segovia
Mg. María Vera
Mg. Marlene Espinoza
Mg. Matilde Gálvez
Mg. Oscar Subiabre
Mg. Pamela Torres
Mg. Patricia Avilés
Mg. Wener da Silva
Mg. Wolfgang Schröder
Lic. Daniela Campos
Lic. Eder Porto
Lic. Elizabeth Rojas
Lic. Jennifer Castro
Lic. Josie Duval
Lic. Mayu Ogiso
Lic. Oriel Palma
Lic. Sebastián Rodríguez
Lic. Vanessa Amaral
The virtualization team is responsible of supporting the virtualization process in every program from the faculty. It is composed of a multidisciplinary team comprised by lecturers and instructional and graphic designers.
This team oversees the creation of strategies to assist lecturers in the virtualization of their courses by distributing support material, providing virtualization training activities and coordinating training instances to further improve virtual teaching directed towards the lecturers from the faculty.
If you are interested in participating in any training activity, notify your Program Director to contact with the academic coordinator from the project: Gisela Watson: gisela.watson@usach.cl
If you have any inquire regarding the use of moodle or the virtualization team, please contact instructional designer Vivien Valenzuela: vivien.valenzuela@usach.cl. Vivien and Camila Berríos will aid you.
If you have participated in any training activities and need help with the creation of audiovisual and interactive digital resource, please contact graphic designer Macarena Saguer: macarena.saguer@usach.cl
Outreach activities, like conferences with foreign guests, language competitions, foreign languages and translation conferences, master classes, translation sessions, diplomatic visits, cultural fairs and other events. Most of these activities are carried out in collaboration with the Japanese, Brazilian and Portuguese Embassies, in addition to other institutions like the Japan Foundation, Camões Institute, and the Brazil-Chile Cultural Centre. Some of the most relevant events are listed down below:
2021
- January 11th: Discussion board organized by lecturer Ana Laura Marques and Kamguimbo Ananaz (Angola). Event aimed at students from the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program.
- January 26th - 27th - 28th: Legal Translation Workshop by lecturer Rosa Basaure in collaboration with translator and legal expert Carolina Faría.
- March 10th - 11th - 12th: Literary Translation Workshop by lecturer Rosa Basaure and academic Leticia Coellner (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).
- March 23rd - 24th: Webinar 25th Anniversary of relations between Japan and Universidad de Santiago: “A virtual journey through Japanese culture” in collaboration with the Japanese Embassy. Article:USACH celebrates 25 years of relations with Japan in virtual event https://drii.usach.cl/es/noticia/usach-celebra-25-a%C3%B1os-de-relaci%C3%B3n-con-jap %C3%B3n-en-evento-virtual
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_rR1zSOMo3M&ab_channel=Usach_Internacional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfcQ4zeKYaM&ab_channel=Usach_Internacional
- June 8th: Presentation by lecturer Ana Laura Marques at the 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: VARIETY, DIVERSITY, AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY: Escrita acadêmica em espanhol-português LE`s como espaço de integração de significados desde uma aproximação dos conceitos biletramento e translinguismo. Lisbon, Portugal.
- June 17th: Lecture by Ana Laura Marques directed at foreign students from the Centro Federal Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil: Ferramentas tecnológicas e estratégias para aprender línguas: uma reflexão sobre o PLA.
- July 1st: Mini-Lecture by Ana Laura Marques “Aula virtual de PLA, níveis iniciais: aspectos metodológicos, interação e colaboração em contextos virtuais”, at the Encontro de Professores de Português como Língua de Acolhimento do Instituto Federal de Paraná, Brazil.
- July 22nd: Webinar “Translation Teaching in a pandemic context: Experiences from universities in China, Spain and Chile” by lecturer Rosa Basaure in cooperation with Vice dean of the Academy of Regional and Global Governance (Department of Hispanic and Portuguese of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China) Liz Ziying and Director of the Confucius Institute in the University of Valencia, Vicente Andreu. Article: https://drii.usach.cl/es/noticia/expertos-internacionales-debaten-sobre-la-ense%C3%B1anza-de-la-traducci%C3%B3n-en-tiempos-de-pandemia Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUmreCNSw-c&ab_channel=Usach_Internacional
- July 27th: Journalistic article about Ana Laura Marques. Article: Global Campus USACH: Ana Laura Marques, Brazilian academic from the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program https://drii.usach.cl/es/noticia/campus-global-usach-ana-laura- marques-acad%C3%A9mica-brasile%C3%B1a-de-la-carrera-ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica- aplicada.
- July 28th - 30th: Presentation by lecturers Marcela Contreras and Angela Morales: “Translation and Oppression: Deontic Modality Markers Evaluation in “The Breadwinner” book and its Spanish translation “El pan de la Guerra” at the 9th Online Translation and Interpreting Sessions organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
- September 11th - 12th: 7th South American Spanish-speaking Countries Meeting for Japanese Teaching. / Online (Centro de Cultura e Idioma Japonés en la Argentina).
第7回 南米スペイン語圏日本語教育会議 オンライン (在亜日本語教育連合会) (https://sites.google.com/スケジュール
- September 15th: Invitation for Marcela Contreras to moderate the lecture “Translation, Gender and Feminism: ¿What is the current prospect?” in the Literary Translation course from the master’s degree in Translation program (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
- September 26th – 27th: Presentation by Rosa Basaure at the 10th “High-level Forum om China-LAC Academic Exchanges”. China – Latin America relations within the post pandemic context: Digital intercultural communicators Training for a world in crises.
2020
- July 31st: Lecture by Ana Laura Marques directed to foreign students from the course Português como Língua de Acolhimento: "Em busca de atalhos digitais para a aprendizagem de português” at the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas, Brazil.
- August 6th: Participation of lecturer Raquel Rubio at the Webinar "Internationalization of the USACH Curriculum". Presentation: International practical teaching experience.
- September 2nd: Webinar organized by lecturer Ana Laura Marques in collaboration with DRII-USACH: “Linguistics boom in the digital world and the development of new technologies".
- September 14th: 3rd Biennial RELEATI Conference 2020. Workshop: Translation and gender studies in Latin America. With the participation of: Rosa Isabel Basaure (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and Álvaro Luis Salazar (Universidad de las Américas, Chile).
- October 3rd: Filopoiesis Group – Cycle of Filopoiesis Discussion boards 2020 “San Jerónimo and International Translation Day”. By Rosa Basaure, Álvaro Salazar and Javier Pavez.
- October 2020: Invitation for lecturer Marcela Contreras to participate as external evaluator at the Graduate Seminar from the master’s in translation program (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).
- October 10th – 11th: 6th South American Spanish-speaking Countries Meeting for the teaching of Japanese / Online (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia).
- October 2020: 9th High-level Forum on China-Latin America CASS-SIIS-Extraordinary Online Edition. The Post-pandemic Global System. Event in collaboration with Forum President Dr. Rosa Basaure, the Department of Linguistics & Literature and VIME-USACH. With the participation of researchers from different universities and Education Centers from China, and lecturers from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and the Chinese Embassy, inaugural session. Organized by Universidad de Santiago together with International Relations Management (DRII) and the Faculty of Humanities. Academic audience specialized in international relations and scientific-technological advances. More information at the DRII-USACH website, YouTube channel and other media.
- October 20th: Presentation at the 19th Seminar on Portuguese Language Teaching Methodology in FEUSP by lecturer Ana Laura Marques: Práticas de ensino de PLE a hispanofalantes em contexto universitário online de emergencia.
- November 30th: Discussion by lecturer Ana Laura Marques in collaboration with lecturer Mahulikplimi Obed Brice Agossa from Benin, directed to students from the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program.
- 第6回南米スペイン語圏日本語教育連絡会議 オンライン （コロンビア コス・アンデス大学 ）.
- December 17th – 18th: Forensic Linguistics Workshop for students from the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program organized by lecturer José Luis Poblete (USACH) and Dr. David Wright (Nottingham University.
2019
- April 4th: Discussion board “Translation and Law: The role of translators and interpreters in the Chilean judicial process.
- April 17th: Lecture by Dr. Rosa Basaure “Debate on gender in translation theory” at UDLA Providencia Campus.
- May 7th: Lecture by Ana Laura Marques “Escrita acadêmica em português e espanhol: Algumas considerações além da proximidade linguística”, University of Texas (Austin, EE.UU.).
- July 31st to August 2nd: Presentation by lecturers Marcela Contreras and Angela Morales “Breaking down linguistic and cultural barriers through Spanish-English legal translation: Bilingual corpus analysis of legal administration texts and determination of terminological and functional translational equivalences”, at the 8th Translation and Interpreting Teaching Sessions carried out in Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique.
- July 4th - 5th – 6th: Participation of lecturer Édinson Muñoz at the 2nd International Congress on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition Interdisciplinarity: the Way out of the Box. Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germersheim, Germany, with his presentation: Translation of words written in different types of scripts: the case of Japanese.
- September 12th: Lecture directed to undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil by Ana Laura Marques: Avaliação de textos de hispanofalantes em PLE: tensões entre conteúdos, forma da língua e desenvolvimento de gêneros em um contexto universitário.
- September 13th: Undergraduate lecture by Ana Laura Marques “Leitura e escrita como mecanismos de inclusão para dois jovens haitianos no contexto educacional chileno”; Class: “ESTUDOS TEMÁTICOS DE LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA - TÓPICOS EM PORTUGUÊS COMO LÍNGUA DE ACOLHIMENTO”: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- September 14th: Lecture directed to undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Ana Laura Marques: “Elaboração de material didático para o ensino de Português como língua de acolhimento”.
- September 14th – 15th: 5th South American Spanish-speaking Countries Meeting for the teaching of Japanese, 2019 / Perú (Peruvian-Japanese Association)
第5回南米スペイン語圏日本語教育連絡会議2019 ペルー (ペルー日系人協会) - October 20th to 24th: (Fuzhou, China) 8th High-level Forum on China-LAC Academic Exchanges. Presentation by Rosa Basaure: Promoting Intercultural communication services: Facing the future of China - Latin America relations and the challenges of a cross-cultural scenario.
2018
- April 17th: Lecture by Ana Laura Marques during the inauguration of the academic year for the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program: Portuguese-Spanish biliteracy: expectation, reality and possibilities about academic literacy in the context of translator training at USACH.
- April 19th: Presentation in the 10th Undergraduate Linguistics Students Sessions at UC-Chile: The importance of reading and writing as an inclusion mechanism among Haitian youths in the Chilean school context by lecturer Ana Laura Marques.
- May 15th: 1st Translation in Legal Sciences discussion board, organized by lecturers Marcela Contreras and Gladys Cabezas.
- June 22nd: Presentation by lecturers Néstor Singer, Raquel Rubio and Manuel Rubio at the 6th International Translation Teaching Research Congress (didTradPACTE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Emotional aspects of language teaching in translation programs: evolution of social representations from first-year and fifth-year undergraduate students.
- June 22nd: Presentation by lecturers Marcela Contreras and Angela Morales at the 6th Translation Teaching Research Congress (didTradPACTE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Facilitating learning contexts to reinforce translation competence: A practical experience in a Chilean university for the development of the extralinguistic sub-competence.
- June 22nd: Presentation by lecturers Rosa Basaure and Néstor Singer at the 6th Translation Teaching Research Congress (didTradPACTE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Public policy and translation competence: The challenge of curriculum design for translation teaching in Chile, while dealing with the linguistic and cultural barriers of the 21st century.
- June 22nd: Participation of lecturers Rosa Basaure and Marcela Contreras at the 6th Translation Teaching Research Congress (didTradPACTE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with their winning poster Curricular considerations for the Chilean case: The influence of international context in translators training.
- August 2nd – 3rd: Presentation by lecturers Rosa Basaure and Mónica Ahumada at the 7th National Translation and Interpreting Teaching Sessions, Universidad de Temuco: Teaching international context in undergraduate programs: Suggestions for elective courses focused on international relations and gender for the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program at the Universidad de Santiago.
- August 3rd – 4th: Presentation by lecturer Ana Laura Marques at the 7th Encontro Mundial de Ensino de Português & I Simpósio de Ensino de Portugués a Falantes de Espanhol: Escrita acadêmica em PLE para futuros tradutores chilenos: integrando conhecimentos discursivos da L1 e da LE, University of Pittsburgh.
- September 5th – 8th: Presentation by lecturer Raquel Rubio at the 39th International Congress of the Asociación para la Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: Spanish for migrants: The collaborative design of a basic-level course.
- September 16th: Presentation by lecturer Raquel Rubio at the International Congress of Japanese teaching “Let’s MEYASU (めやす)”: Exchange learning project between Chilean and Japanese university students in collaboration with Osaka Gakuin University.
- October 2018: Roundtable: ¿How do women see ourselves? Insights about gender, cultural diversity and translation, with the participationof Elisa Loncon Antileo, Fabiola Samhan Ravenna-Ruiz and Constanza Jorquera Mery.
- November 5th: Lecture by Rosa Basaure at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) about Translation and Gender. Invitation by the English-Spanish Translation program UDLA.
- November 7th – 8th: Nihon Matsuri. Japanese culture festival organized by students from the Applied Linguistics in Translation Studies program.
- November 7th - 8th – 9th: Presentation by lecturer Édinson Muñoz at the 5th Conference of Clinical Linguistics, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain: Language, translation, and brain: what clinical and neuroscientific evidence reveals about some translation and neurocognitive processes tenets associated with reading a writing system with two ways of spelling: evidence from neurological studies with Japanese patients.
- November 10th: Japanese Language Speech Contest.
- November 14th: Lecture: A Nikkei’s experience in Japan by Akira Manaka. Department of Linguistics and Literature in collaboration with the Japanese Embassy in Chile.
- November 2018: Discussion board Inclusive language: Language, power, and sexism. Organized in collaboration with students from the elective course “Translation and Gender Studies”, Pablo Maturana and Daniela Aburto.
- November 22nd: Lecture: German-Spanish Translation and adaptation of the professional translation learning manual Fertigkeit Übersetzen by lecturer María Isabel Diéguez (PUC) and organized by the Translation Coordination of the program.
- December 2nd and Juy 7th: Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).
- December 13th: Luso Festa. Event that aims to spread the culture of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries within the university. Organized by the Department of Linguistics and Literature and Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.
