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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
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Liu, Qian – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper investigates the influence of three factors on pronunciation accuracy of Chinese adult foreign language learners. Ten target sounds including phonemes and syllables are included in the pre-test, an analysis of which shows that the mispronunciation of the randomly chosen target sounds mainly results from L1 negative transfer. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Accuracy, Adults