TRADUÇÃO COMUNITÁRIA EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA COMO PROMOTORA DA EDUCAÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA.

The project "Tradução, mediação linguística e disseminação de informações à comunidade" [Translation, linguistic mediation and diffusion of information to the community], developed at the Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) in 2020 (from March to December), aimed at spreading accurate and reliable information during the covid-19 pandemic. A team of volunteers looked for texts with potential social impact and circulated them to keep the community informed and, in parallel, developed different skills. This study discusses how this community translation project contributed to the participants' linguistic education, drawing on a questionnaire sent out to participants. Results show different perceptions about the contributions of the project: improvement of reading and writing skills in Portuguese and also increased knowledge in other languages, besides the development of academic and/or informational literacies. Although linguistic education was not the main goal of the project, participants' perceptions suggest the effective contribution of translation to language learning and awareness of multilingualism, among other benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]