Entry #4 - Translation Voici comment obtenir un devis sans engagement pour la traduction d'un article de magazines ou d'une brochure

Veuillez tout d’abord sélectionner la combinaison 1. Frist thing I did was try to find any words that were similar to english and I translated those words.  Realizing that my translation may be wrong. Voici - voice, obtenir- obtain, Engagement - engagement, article - ArticleMagazine - magazine, demande- demand receverez - receive, selectioneer - selection Brochure - brouchure,Simplement - simplycombinaison- combination, selectioneer - selection, competents - components, formulaire - formula 2. Then I translated words I thought I knew the meaning of from background knowledge  ( I can read spanish) un-one, pour - for, de-of, des- of, en -in, la- the 3. Putting it all together I figure out that this article is about translating french.  But I don't understand it completely. I know from translating english into spanish that doing it word by word does not provide an accurate traslation because of the languages idomatic properties.  Whether or not an ELL learner could make heads or tale from reading in another language depends a great deal on whether or not they have a sufficient knowledge of their own language.  The only reason I could even sightly figure this out was because I have vocabulary background to connect the unknown word to a known word in my own language.  If the studnet does not have an academic background it would be next to impossible to make the connection unless it was read to then and then they might be able to connect the sounds.  It would be much simpler if some type of chardes were done while the text is read.  Picture representation would also go a long way to assist in translation.   Another thought became obvious to me while atempting this exercise.  I was very motivated to attempt this translation but the ELL students aren't always.  Motivation of the student to want to try to understand is paramount in the learning process.