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Introduction: Improving communication and understanding skills in English at present is an indispensable necessity for those who conduct masters and doctorate studies, since they allow them to disclose the results of research with more precision, as well as to clearly assimilate the specialized literature. Objective: To analyze some of the main translation strategies used by the participants in the course about understanding and communication research results. Methods: An educational study was carried out in the period 2021-2022 at the University of Medical Sciences in Cienfuegos, with a sample of 42 professionals enrolled in doctoral training programs of biomedical, stomatological and psychological sciences. For this purpose, observation was used as a method to describe the training process in translation of medical texts from English to Spanish. Results: The most used strategy by doctorate students was literal translation, which was found in the 107 fragments analyzed, and it was the only one applied in 86.9% of the cases; followed by transposition (70.0%). Lexical calque was the least used strategy, as it only appeared in 11.2% of the medical texts translated from English to Spanish.Conclusions: The most used strategies were literal translation and transposition, which is due to the fact that lexical and syntactic structures serve as a basis for establishing analogies between Spanish and English languages and, therefore, facilitate the reexpression involved in translation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]