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Chapter 6. The use of corpora in translator training 93tion practice were added. The latter modules employ general, comparable, parallel,special purpose and DIY corpora in training student translators, and also providestudents with training in using such corpora as translation resource andtranslator’s tool.3.1 Outline of the curriculumThe UP translation curriculum, and specifically the courses focussing on the applicationof HLT in translation practice, can be viewed in the yearbook of the Facultyof Humanities at the following web address: http://www.up.ac.za/academic/eng/yearbooks.html.3.2 Available resources and infrastructureUP’s Department of African Languages which hosts the translator training courseson behalf of the School of Languages, has the following resources and infrastructureat its disposal to provide the necessary corpus-based training:a. General (electronic) corpora for all the official SA languages. 2 UP is the onlyhigher education institution in South Africa that possesses such large general corporain all the official languages, and particularly in the SA Bantu languages. Therespective sizes of the different corpora are as follows (see Table 1).Table 1. Sizes of the UP general corpora (as on 2 Feb. 2003)LanguageSize in running words (tokens)Afrikaans 4,817,239English 12,545,938N.Sotho 5,957,553Ndebele 1,033,965S.Sotho 3,159,568Swati 316,622Tsonga 3,533,964Tswana 3,705,417Venda 2,462,243Xhosa 2,400,898Zulu 5,001,4562. These corpora were compiled by D J Prinsloo and/or G-M de Schryver, in collaborationwith M J Dlomo and members of some of the National Lexicography Units (NLUs), except forthe English corpus that was culled from the Internet by R Gauton.