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Bridging the Gap between Translation and Interpreting Students and Freelance Professionals. The Mentoring Programme of the Professional Association of Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia
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Olalla-Soler, Christian – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
This paper presents the mentoring programme carried out by Professional Association of Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia (APTIC) based on a multiple-mentoring model. It was offered during the academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 in collaboration with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat de Vic and will continue in…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Professional Personnel, Translation, Work Ethic
Revisiting Proofreading in Higher Education: Toward an Institutional Response to Editors Canada's Guidelines for Ethical Editing of Student Texts
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Conrad, Nina – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
Anglosphere universities are a site of growing concern about students' use of professional English language editing and proofreading services for the correction of academic writing. Students' use of such services raises issues of ethics and academic integrity as well as fundamental questions about how value is allotted to the labour involved in…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Higher Education, Guidelines, Editing
Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative: The Pedagogy of Collective Writing
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Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
Error Treatment in the EFL Writing Class: Red Pen Method Versus Remedial Instruction
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Correction
Error Treatment in the EFL Writing Class: Red Pen Method versus Remedial Instruction
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
In a study conducted to see which method of error treatment was more effective in EFL writing classes, 288 Iranian EFL learners took the TOEFL test to be grouped in two homogeneous classes. Each student in each group wrote a paragraph on a general topic which was proofread for mistakes/errors by three experienced EFL writing teachers (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language)
A Computerised English Language Proofing Cloze Program.
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Coniam, David – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1997
Describes a computer program that takes multiple-choice cloze passages and compiles them into proofreading exercises. Results reveal that such a computerized test type can be used to accurately measure the proficiency of students of English as a Second Language in Hong Kong. (14 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing