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Direct linkLiu, Christy Fung-Ming – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Translator professionalism is seldom studied in an empirical way in Asia, not to mention the similarities and differences in the perception of the topic as exhibited by practitioners versus clients. The present study examines translator professionalism as a multidimensional term covering practitioners' language competency, translation skills,…
Descriptors: Translation, Professionalism, Job Skills, Language Proficiency
Yue Lang; Yingying Liu – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
Chunking, the process of breaking texts into meaningful units, is a fundamental skill in interpreting. This study investigates the potential benefits of a computer-assisted chunking method, visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) to improve translators' performance. In the study, three passages with similar readability were randomly presented to…
Descriptors: Translation, Syntax, Layout (Publications), Second Languages
Su, Wei – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Past studies on aptitude for interpreting have investigated the correlation between personal traits and achievement, yet relatively few have singled out students' emotional state as an important aptitude constituent or tracked its developmental patterns. To address this gap, the present study followed 116 Chinese students of interpreting for five…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liu, Yanmei; Zheng, Binghan – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
This study investigates the comparability of three parallel translation tasks selected from a College English Test Band-6 (CET-6) and explores the major linguistic features contributing to translation difficulty. Data obtained from the participants' subjective rating, eye-tracking, and performance evaluation were triangulated to measure the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Translation, Difficulty Level, Language Processing
Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Content analysis of job ads has been used to inform curriculum renewal in many disciplines, but it is not commonplace in Translation Studies. This paper aims to identify qualifications and competences in the translation market through content analysis of translation job ads in China. Four hundred and twenty-nine job ads were collected from the two…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Translation, Interpersonal Competence, Marketing
Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
As a form of aptitude testing for interpreting, recall across languages has long been considered as a valid means of assessing candidates' linguistic, cognitive and communicative abilities. However, most of the existing research on this topic is only derived from the consensus among or the professional experience of interpreting researchers,…
Descriptors: Translation, Validity, Recall (Psychology), Language Tests
