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- Title
Investigating translation trainees' self-perceived competence: A process-oriented, collaborative seminar on translation and translation revision.
- Authors
Latorraca, Rossella; Aiello, Jacqueline
- Abstract
Pushed by the increasing internationalization of education and recent economic dynamics, training programs are shifting their focus to acquiring competences and know-how through real-life materials to enhance learners' employability and access to the work market. Moreover, recent research has called for the implementation of editing/revision content in translation programs, overcoming the assumed distance between translation and editing/revision professions. In light of social constructivism and process-oriented pedagogical trends in translation training, an intensive twenty-hour seminar was designed and piloted in a Master's degree program in Specialized Translation with the intent of increasing students' awareness of the translation process, including translation revision and their sense of perceived competence. Rasch analysis of pre- and post-test questionnaires detected positive changes in students' self-perceived proficiency in translation, translation revision, and editing, with critical implications for the usefulness of process-oriented, realistic approaches integrating both translation and editing/revision content in translation training programs.
- Subjects
ABILITY; SEMINARS; SOCIAL constructionism; REVISION (Writing process); PRE-tests &; post-tests
- Publication
Babel: International Journal of Translation / Revue Internationale de la Traduction / Revista Internacional de Traducción, 2021, Vol 67, Issue 4, p460
- ISSN
0521-9744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/babel.00232.lat