{"title":"Implicit agent se-constructions","authors":"Mónica Rodríguez-Castro, Concepción B. Godev","doi":"10.1075/resla.22022.rod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22022.rod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study provides evidence to support the need for student-translators to be systematically exposed to analyzing\u0000 and translating texts that give them the opportunity to observe how implicit agent se-constructions need to be used when\u0000 translating from English into Spanish. A corpus of scientific abstracts was analyzed to compare the frequency of implicit agent\u0000 se-constructions in abstracts written originally in Spanish and abstracts translated from English into Spanish. Both corpora tools\u0000 and t-tests were used for comparing data. The results indicate that the abstracts written originally in Spanish feature a more\u0000 frequent use of implicit agent se-constructions than the abstracts translated into Spanish. The researchers propose the use of\u0000 scientific abstracts, both originally written in Spanish and translated into Spanish, as pedagogical instruments to model how\u0000 implicit agent se-constructions operate, thereby promoting student-translators’ accurate use of such constructions, which are\u0000 frequently used not only in scientific abstracts but also in a wide range of language domains in the Spanish language.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140741178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of fluency training on interpreter trainees’ speech fluency, comprehensibility, and\u0000 accentedness","authors":"Mahmood Yenkimaleki, V. V. van Heuven","doi":"10.1075/resla.22044.yen","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22044.yen","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness are considered important parameters of interpreting quality but have\u0000 rarely been studied systematically in training programs of interpreting. Therefore, the present study was set up to investigate\u0000 the effect of fluency training on speech fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness of interpreter trainees. Two groups of\u0000 interpreter trainees at a university in Iran took part in the study, receiving the same amount of instruction and practice\u0000 (12 hours over 4 weeks). The experimental group (N = 30) spent 33% of the time (i.e., 4 of the 12 hours in the\u0000 training program) on dedicated fluency strategy training, encouraging the memorization, repetition, and retelling of audio and\u0000 video materials. The remaining 67% was spent on training general speaking skills. The control group (N = 30) were\u0000 only taught general speaking skills in the training program but received no dedicated fluency training. Systematic interviews were\u0000 run to assess the interpreter trainees’ speech fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness, which were judged independently by\u0000 three expert raters at three moments of testing, i.e., pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest (one month later). The\u0000 findings revealed that the fluency training significantly enhanced the interpreter trainees’ fluency, and to a lesser extent the\u0000 students’ comprehensibility but had only a marginal effect on accentedness. The pedagogical implication would be that awareness\u0000 training on speech fluency in EFL settings be included in interpreting training programs.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"206 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140751204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}