...A Proposed Corpus Linguistics-Based Program to Develop EFL Student Teachers’ Translation Competence and Reduce their Cognitive Load

The current study aimed at exploring the use of a proposed corpus linguistics-based program to develop student teachers’ translation competence and reduce their cognitive load. The study sample consisted of seventy-seven third year student teachers at the Faculty of Education, Mansoura University. The participants were divided into two groups: an experimental group (n=34) and a control group(n=43). To collect data the researcher designed a translation competence checklist, a pre-post translation competence test, and a cognitive load scale. Quantitative analyses of participants’ performance revealed statistically significant differences between the mean score of the experimental group and those of the control group on the post-administration of the translation competence test and cognitive load scale favoring the experimental group and statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group on the pre- and post-administrations of the translation competence test and cognitive load scale favoring the post-administration. Besides, the qualitative analysis of results supported the significant impact of the corpus linguistics-based program on developing student teachers’ translation competence as students’ responses to the tasks were analyzed. It was recommended that the proposed program should be integrated into teaching translation courses for tertiary level.
Key words: corpus linguistics, translation competence, cognitive load.