Truths and lies on the Internet: the necessary awakening of a critical awareness between translation students

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Alfredo Álvarez Álvarez

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This article aims, first of all, to encourage a critical approach to the Internet information handled by each user, and particularly hopes to awaken in university translation students the need of evaluating the documentation they are accessing and which they will work with in their future careers. This paper develops the project carried out in a general French-Spanish translation lecture of Alcalá University, in which a series of website analysis grids were designed to help students ascertain any website’s trustworthiness.

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Álvarez Álvarez, Alfredo. 2019. “Truths and lies on the Internet: the necessary awakening of a critical awareness between translation students”. Vivat Academia. Journal of Communication, no. 146 (March):97-111. https://doi.org/10.15178/va.2019.146.97-111.
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Alfredo Álvarez Álvarez, Universidad de Alcalá

He is a professor of French Language at the University of Alcalá (Madrid). PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid, with a thesis on Internet resources for learning and French translation, his research works on the integration of technologies in class. On the subject he has made numerous publications, of which New Technologies for the French class stands out: theory and practice. Some of its publications are: Attitudes and valuation in the use of a social network for the learning of the French foreign language, 2014, in Vivat Academia magazine, Vol. 128, and the book chapter The use of social networks in the creation of a narrative: learning’s on the internet, in the “Current communication book: social networks and 2.0 and 3.0”, (2014) McGraw Hill, Detection of learning needs through the use of a social network and video in a class of French Foreign Language, 2016 , in Journal of Communication of the SEECI, vol 39.

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