Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E最新文献

Measuring the “invisible”: Clarifying the concept of cognitive effort in translation and interpreting processes 衡量 "无形"：澄清笔译和口译过程中认知努力的概念

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20238

Deyan Zou, Jiadong Zhang

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MACHINE TRANSLATION: PERCEPTION OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDENTS IN TURKEY 机器翻译：土耳其笔译和口译学生的看法

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20237

Erdinç Erdinç Aslan Aslan

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CHILDREN’S AUDIO DESCRIPTION FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION AND THE ACQUISITION OF VOCABULARY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES 儿童语音描述促进调解实践和外语词汇的掌握

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl202233

Ramírez Barroso Barroso, Elia Ramírez Barroso

{"title":"CHILDREN’S AUDIO DESCRIPTION FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDIATION AND THE ACQUISITION OF VOCABULARY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES","authors":"Ramírez Barroso Barroso, Elia Ramírez Barroso","doi":"10.51287/cttl202233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51287/cttl202233","url":null,"abstract":"Even though teaching methods have evolved, translation remains an important and useful tool in the second language classroom (Lertola, 2018). Teachers have been adapting translation exercises to the new teaching trends, and this has allowed AVT to gain a new dimension as a didactic tool (Alonso Pérez & Sánchez Requena, 2018). Some researchers have already conducted projects to implement AVT modes to enhance students’ linguistic skills, but also to encourage intercultural education. Regarding DAT studies, the main modes that have been employed are dubbing and subtitling. However, accessibility modes like AD and SDH have not yet received as much academic attention as they deserve. A type of AD that has been ignored in academic fields is children’s AD. When creating a script for a children’s program, it is crucial to consider the specific needs of this group. This article discusses a case study in which an interactive activity based on children’s AD is employed to help English as a foreign language students practice their mediation skills and acquire vocabulary related to feelings and emotions while also developing their creativity. The results of the experiment show that students perceive that they have developed their creativity and their vocabulary and that the activity has helped them be more aware of the importance of accessibility nowadays. Keywords: accessibility, adaptation, children’s audio description, didactic audiovisual translation, language teaching","PeriodicalId":40810,"journal":{"name":"Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154693","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}

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REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSLATOR TRAINING THROUGH HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION: INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM INTEGRATING GPT-4 通过人机协作革新翻译培训：整合 GPT-4 的启示和影响

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20239

Hussein Abu-Rayyash

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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TOURISM ONLINE: (IN)ACCESSIBILITY OF LOCAL COLOR RELATING TO ARCHITECTURE TERMS 在线波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那旅游：与建筑术语有关的地方色彩（无）可获取性

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20232

Tanja Pavlović, Sanel Hadžiahmetović Jurida

{"title":"BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TOURISM ONLINE: (IN)ACCESSIBILITY OF LOCAL COLOR RELATING TO ARCHITECTURE TERMS","authors":"Tanja Pavlović, Sanel Hadžiahmetović Jurida","doi":"10.51287/cttl20232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51287/cttl20232","url":null,"abstract":"Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a country rich in history and culture, has for centuries been at the crossroads between the West and the East, which has resulted in quite a mixture of cross-cultural elements that pose many obstacles for translators. As the issues of tourism-language translation have been relatively underexplored in BiH, this article attempts to investigate the extent to which the translators of tourism-related content available online succeeded in making the local color of architecture-related terms accessible to foreign visitors. The article also examines whether the issue of accessibility of local color was addressed adequately by local translators. Many formal and informal online sources were used for the selection of prominent cultural terms and their English translations, which were analyzed in terms of lexis and semantics. We identified many examples where the cultural content was made accessible to the target audience, as well as examples where the transfer of the cultural content was done less successfully. In cases where translators experienced difficulty while transferring cultural terms, we attempted to draw prospective translators’ attention to potential pitfalls in the process of cultural mediation in translation from BiH’s official languages into English. Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, tourism online, mediation, (in)accessibility, local color, translation, architecture","PeriodicalId":40810,"journal":{"name":"Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154796","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}

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WORD ORDER VARIATION IN ADVANCED STUDENTS’ TRANSLATION TASKS: A LEARNER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS 高年级学生翻译任务中的词序变化：基于学习者语料库的分析

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl202311

Rudy Loock

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COLOUR AS A METACOGNITION ENHANCING STRATEGY IN SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATORS’ EDUCATION 将色彩作为科学翻译教育中的元认知强化策略

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20234

Maite Teresa Veiga-Diaz

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INTRODUCING WELL-BEING TO THE TRANSLATION CLASSROOM: INSIGHTS FROM THE TRENCHES OF COVID-19 将福祉引入翻译课堂：COVID-19 战壕的启示

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20236

Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Katarina Gjurchevska-Atanasovska, Solzica Popovska

{"title":"INTRODUCING WELL-BEING TO THE TRANSLATION CLASSROOM: INSIGHTS FROM THE TRENCHES OF COVID-19","authors":"Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Katarina Gjurchevska-Atanasovska, Solzica Popovska","doi":"10.51287/cttl20236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51287/cttl20236","url":null,"abstract":"The abrupt and profound changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a variety of social and personal situations that negatively affected the well-being of teachers and students in higher education thus producing serious emotional strain. Previous research shows that satisfactory student performance can be obtained in an online class when it is accompanied by psychosocial support tools, such as enrichment and remediation tutorials, academic advising, guidance and counselling programs, fitness and wellness resources, spiritual formation activities and faculty-student consultation. This paper aims to test the effectiveness and the perception of well-being and participative activities in the translation classroom. It presents the findings of a pilot intervention implemented with 42 translation students. The intervention is based on the PERMA theory of well-being and tests 9 well-being and participative techniques. The methodology combines pre- and post-intervention questionnaires and the analysis combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings suggest that although there are no significant quantitative differences, students’ perceptions are positive. Suggestions are discussed together with possible implications for the future. Keywords: psychosocial support, well-being, teaching methods, higher education, translation education","PeriodicalId":40810,"journal":{"name":"Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153815","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}

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EUROPEAN UNION LAW IN TRANSLATION: CORE PRINCIPLES AND USEFUL TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE TRANSLATION COURSES 翻译中的欧盟法律：本科翻译课程的核心原则和实用工具

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl20235

Marco Neves

{"title":"EUROPEAN UNION LAW IN TRANSLATION: CORE PRINCIPLES AND USEFUL TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE TRANSLATION COURSES","authors":"Marco Neves","doi":"10.51287/cttl20235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51287/cttl20235","url":null,"abstract":"The translation of European Union (EU) law can be seen as a specific case of international law translation and thus relevant only to legal translators. The author argues that concepts related to EU law and tools developed by the EU to support translators should be taught as early as possible to all undergraduate students of translation. This is due to two specificities of European law: it covers a great range of different areas, many of them of a technical nature, thus being useful to many (if not all) translators outside the legal field; and it is mentioned in many non-legal texts, from catalogues to journalistic texts. Therefore, professional translators are bound to find references to EU law throughout their careers and should know how to deal with them and how to avoid common pitfalls. Furthermore, tools created by the European Union — terminology tools, publicly available translation memories, and provision of legislation in multilingual format — are very useful to any translator and knowing how to use them is a skill essential to translation professionals. This study will make suggestions for teaching principles, tools and common sources of translation errors related to EU law to students who do not have any form of legal training. Keywords: EU law, legal translation, European translation, translation teaching","PeriodicalId":40810,"journal":{"name":"Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154095","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}

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TRANSLATION TRAINING: THE USE OF AUTHENTIC PROJECTS 翻译培训：使用真实项目

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Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.51287/cttl202310

Diamantoula Korda

{"title":"TRANSLATION TRAINING: THE USE OF AUTHENTIC PROJECTS","authors":"Diamantoula Korda","doi":"10.51287/cttl202310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51287/cttl202310","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aspires to shed light on the pedagogical aspects of translation and, more specifically, the training of novice translators. The aim of the paper consists of testing how translation is best taught via empirical channels and in conjunction with retrospective comments. The project under investigation was conducted in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (November 2021) and involved postgraduate students pursuing their master’s degrees. The project, in which the students were involved, was authentic in that it was situated in realistic circumstances since they were requested to perform a real translation task for a volume to be published, reaching out to readers other than the course instructor. Students were initially asked to translate a text collaboratively. After the completion of the translation task, they were asked to critically reflect upon their translation practice by writing an essay and explicitly exploring the benefits of such a procedure. According to their comments, the use of an authentic project, in an otherwise theoretical class, paid off since they found that their perspective was broadened, and their practice became conscious throughout the different stages. More specifically, among others, they highlighted that their critical thinking was sharpened, their collaboration skills improved, and their self-reflection proved to be a powerful tool guiding their decision-making. The case study could be further enhanced if another type of text was chosen [literary extracts], another setting was selected [undergraduate courses] or more stakeholders would be involved. Keywords: translation teaching, translation methodology, authentic project, new paradigm","PeriodicalId":40810,"journal":{"name":"Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154301","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}

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