Collaboration in language development between American and Polish university students
Collaboration in language development between American and Polish university students

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the effects of collaborative translation tasks in native-nonnative student pairs for improving language written production and translation skills. The study uses data from one academic year contacts between Polish MA students of English and translation at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin and the University of Łódź and first-year writing students of non-humanities subjects at North Dakota State University within a Trans-Atlantic Pacific Project (TAPP). A general trend observed in education at present involves internetbased communication and collaborative knowledge acquisition. The paper makes reference to the interaction hypothesis in second language acquisition and in the teaching of translation and discusses the use of interactional – mainly corrective – strategies in their writing on the basis of the Polish-US student direct email contacts, and changes which result in their language.

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