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Direct linkSu, 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
Liisa Rebane; Triin van Doorslaer – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
Although the idea of translation psychology dates from the 1970s, it is still a rather neglected branch of translation studies. The purpose of this study is to describe the relations of translators' implicit theories of translation to goal orientation, self-efficacy and self-regulation. The sample consisted of 125 adults (of at least 18 years old)…
Descriptors: Translation, Metacognition, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation
Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
T&I programmes aim to produce self-reliant graduates capable of judging their own work against agreed criteria and increasing their levels of competence over the course of their careers. An essential element to achieve this goal is student-centred assessment, i.e. 'assessment as learning' (AaL) (also known as 'sustainable assessment'), which…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Testing Problems, Validity
Konttinen, Kalle; Veivo, Outi; Salo, Pia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
Translation graduates need organisational skills to be able to cooperate in translation service production workflows. This paper explores the development of translation students' workflow conceptions in a simulated translation company learning environment. Using the standard ISO 17100 as a frame of reference for a content analysis of student…
Descriptors: Translation, Work Environment, Teaching Methods, Language Processing
Xu, Yi – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The research on interpreting aptitude has focused on the abilities, skills and personal traits of individuals in order to predict their future interpreting performance. However, an important variable between the personal characteristics and success of trainee interpreters in interpreter training, which is instructional practices, is overlooked.…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Aptitude, Feedback (Response), Short Term Memory
Núñez, Juan L.; Bolaños-Medina, Alicia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Translation as a decision-making process, associated with problem-solving activity, has been approached by a relatively long tradition of scholars and is still at the core of process-oriented research in translation studies. After reviewing the main contributions on this subject, the concepts of 'competence' and 'intrinsic motivation' are analysed…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Problem Solving, Translation, Student Attitudes
