English translation of "les motifs extérieurs...sont indéfinissables" - "The external reasons of the teacher cannot be defined, and thus they leave room for reformatting the interaction by the code-switching imposed by the learners."

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144 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	les motifs extérieurs...sont indéfinissables
Context:	[The sense is evident but I just can't find a good way of phrasing the whole sentence]
Keywords:	Les motifs extérieurs de l’enseignante sont indéfinissables et laissent place à un reformatage de l’interaction par le code-switching imposé par les apprenants.

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144 months ago

wrote:

Inderminable exterieur motives

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

the ulterior motives... are undefined/undefinable

My comment:

the first part is exactly what we say; I do not think incomprehensible/obscure/vague suit as the teacher has left them open expressly, to be able to adapt accordingly. the second can be changed. I prefer undefined to undefinable though that is the meaning of indéfinissable

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

the ulterior motives... are undefined/undefinable

My comment:

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

The teacher’s motives are not apparent

My comment:

...and lead to
Somewhat more concise, if that is not held against the translator by a more verbose author!

144 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

The teacher’s motives are not apparent

My comment:

...and lead to
Somewhat more concise, if that is not held against the translator by a more verbose author!

144 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

the instructor's goals, as they appear on the surface, seem to be indefinable

144 months ago

i. grolhier-deckarm wrote:

The external reasons of the teacher cannot be defined, and thus they leave room for reformatting the interaction by the code-switching imposed by the learners.

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144 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

That's pretty well word for word what I came up with in the end....Thanks.

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