Training Translators for Video Game Localization: In Search of a Pedagogical Approach

ABSTRACT Based on the assumption that video game localization inevitably has levels of collaboration among their agents, forming a collaborative continuum that involves localization managers, translators, localization coordinators, and linguistic testers, who directly or indirectly influence the game to be localized, game localization teaching can also adopt a collaborative approach, dynamically promoting experience exchanges between translation teachers and students, and other collaborators. Accordingly, this paper, conceived as a didactic proposal of qualitative and naturalistic bias (GILE, 2009; CHESTERMAN; WILLIAMS, 2002), describes possibilities for incorporating video game localization in translation teaching using a collaborative pedagogical approach (KIRALY, 2000).摘要 鉴于电子游戏本地化（video game localization）的实施必然涉及各参与主体间的多层级协作，由此形成涵盖本地化经理、译员、本地化协调员与语言测试员的协作连续体，上述主体均会直接或间接对待本地化游戏产生影响，因此游戏本地化教学亦可采用协作模式，动态推动翻译教师、学生及其他协作方之间的经验交流。据此，本文以兼具质性研究与自然主义取向的教学构想为研究基础（GILE, 2009; CHESTERMAN; WILLIAMS, 2002），阐述了运用协作式教学法（collaborative pedagogical approach）将电子游戏本地化内容融入翻译教学的可行路径。