Community healthcare translation training and ad hoc corpora

This article deals with the exploitation of a monolingual specialised ad hoc corpus as a documentation resource in the community healthcare translation classroom. We start with a general overview of using a corpus-based methodology in the Community Translation context, an emerging branch within Translation Studies. We follow with a description of the main steps involved in the compilation and exploitation of the corpus in a postgraduate Community Translation environment, focusing on corpus linguistics as a documentation tool for the translation of healthcare texts, and the use of a corpus-based methodology.