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Thie present work, the result of a doctoral research, aims at designing a model of the linguo-didactic dynamics of translation, based on the treatment of lexical-semantic ambiguity produced by false analogues, as a linguistic phenomenon that conditions inadequacies in translation. Thiese inadequacies have been previously corroborated through a diagnosis made to translation students in Cuba, based on a translation test and the verbalization of protocols, which supports the need to deepen the approach to this phenomenon from a didactic perspective. Thie model, designed from the holistic-configurational method, allows, from the theoretical point of view, the improvement of the translatological practice in the classroom by highlighting the dynamic essence of the linguistic-cognitive and the didactic-translational. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Partial cognates are words in two languages that share similar visual and phonetic features, and its meaning in both can also be similar in some contexts, but different in others. This research article is based on a qualitative methodology, and aims to analyze the use of English- Spanish partial cognates in academic texts produced in English by researchers from Universidad de Oriente, thus Spanish speakers. The sample for this analysis consisted of 22 academic papers, including resumes, doctoral proposals, international scholarship foundations and foundations of collaborative projects, all written as part of the collaboration project Cuba- Belgium VLIR. The main results of this research are the explanation of the use of partial cognates in these texts, and of how they affect the correct transmission of the message. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]