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Mar Díaz-Millón – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The term "transcreation" has become popular over the last decade in the language services industry. It has also gained traction in the creative industries. Previous research demonstrates there is an interest in introducing transcreation training in Translation and Interpreting studies, possibly as a result of its growing popularity in…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Translation, Second Languages, Language Processing
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Enrique Cerezo Herrero – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Although research in Translation Studies has burgeoned in the last decades, the number of studies dealing with the role of foreign language teaching for translator and interpreter trainees is still scarce. With a view to filling this void, the present article reports on students' perspectives on foreign language learning as an inherent part of…
Descriptors: Translation, Professional Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sánchez Ramos, María del Mar – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
The ever-increasing demand for immediate access to information means interpreters and translators are increasingly using, and relying on, digital technology in their work. In the migratory context, machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE) have the potential to greatly increase the efficiency of public service interpreting and translation…
Descriptors: Public Service, Translation, Computational Linguistics, Graduate Students
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Pérez-Sobrino, Paula; Littlemore, Jeannette; Houghton, David – Applied Linguistics, 2019
To date, research in advertising has focussed almost exclusively on metaphor, with linguists and marketing scholars paying very little attention to alternative types of figurative expression. Beyond the finding that metaphor leads to an increased appreciation of advertisements, there has been surprisingly little research into how consumer response…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Cultural Differences
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Carrasco Flores, José Andrés – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
Nowadays, there is widespread agreement that developing Translation Competence (TC) is the ultimate goal of translator training. Much research has been devoted to the analysis of TC and how it can be used in translation methodology in order to overcome the translation problems that may arise. However, one of the most important components of TC --…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Proficiency, Professional Education, Language Processing
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Ferré, Pilar; Anglada-Tort, Manuel; Guasch, Marc – Second Language Research, 2018
The present study investigates whether the emotional content of words has the same effect in the different languages of bilinguals by testing the effects of word concreteness, the type of task used, and language status. Highly proficient bilinguals of Catalan and Spanish who learned Catalan and Spanish in early childhood in a bilingual immersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingual Students, Language Usage
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Beatty-Martínez, Anne L.; Navarro-Torres, Christian A.; Dussias, Paola E.; Bajo, María Teresa; Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E.; Kroll, Judith F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language use hold for the way in which cognitive resources modulate language abilities. Three groups of speakers were compared, all of whom were highly proficient Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Schemata (Cognition), Language Usage, Psycholinguistics
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Colome, Angels; Miozzo, Michele – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Whether words are or are not activated within the lexicon of the nonused language is an important question for accounts of bilingual word production. Prior studies have not led to conclusive results, either because alternative accounts could be proposed for their findings or because activation could have been artificially induced by the…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Bilingualism, Language Usage, Vocabulary
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Alvarez, Esther – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
It is a matter of debate whether the two differentiated grammatical systems in a bilingual child develop autonomously, or whether there is interdependence and in what areas (Genesee, 2001; Meisel, 2001). Extensive research is being carried out in the emergence of the two grammars, but not much attention has been given to the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grammar, Spanish, English