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Shehr Bano Zaidi – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
This research project is set in a Pakistani undergraduate translation studies class. Pakistan is an ex-British colony where English is taught in a linguistic neo-imperial context. Teachers often endeavor to lessen the palpable struggle of students by introducing activities that put less emphasis on grammatical correctness and more on fostering…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2024
Expressions of impossibility refer to events that can never or rarely happen, tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform, people or things that are of no use and things that are impossible to find. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic expressions of impossibility, and the difficulties that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Arabic, Translation
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Sánchez-Castany, Roser – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
In recent years, the language industry has undergone a technological revolution, and professionals are increasingly required to have strong technological knowledge and expertise. Undergraduate translation programmes have tried to adapt to these changing market demands, albeit at a much slower pace. However, there still seems to be a significant…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Translation, Second Languages
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Andrew S. Taylor – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2024
This essay shows how one professor teaching "Introduction to Buddhism" sought to counteract his students' view that Chinese and Tibetan forms of Buddhism represented a deviation from a "pure" Indian Buddhism rather than worthwhile forms of creativity and religiosity in themselves. A simple comparative assignment that asked a…
Descriptors: French, English, Translation, Singing
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Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady; Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal; Samia Khalifa Abdullah – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: English as a foreign langauge (EFL) students find it difficult to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire on translation in the practical world. Therefore, this study explored if training in pretranslation techniques (PTTs) (syntactic parsing) as suggested by Almanna (2018) could improve the translation proficiency of Yemeni EFL…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ordóñez López, Pilar; Agost, Rosa – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
The practical orientation of undergraduate translation and interpreting degrees in Spain means that less importance is given to theoretical modules, and it is often thought that students doubt the usefulness of these modules and are therefore reluctant to take them. Previous empirical research has shown that students are not as averse to theory as…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Translation, Professional Personnel, Linguistic Theory
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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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Yi-Ping Wu; Hui-Hsien Feng; Bo-Ren Mau – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2025
Corpus analysis methods have been widely employed in literary translation research by numerous scholars. However, their integration into literary translation training has yet to be developed. With the advancement of AI technology, this paper explores the potential of employing AI-enhanced corpus text analysis and text mining techniques in this…
Descriptors: Translation, Computer Software, Comparative Analysis, Language Styles
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Emily A. Hellmich; Kimberly Vinall – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
The use of machine translation (MT) tools remains controversial among language instructors, with limited integration into classroom practices. While much of the existing research into MT and language education has explored instructor perceptions, less is known about how students actually use MT or how student use compares to instructor beliefs and…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Pintado Gutiérrez, Lucía – L2 Journal, 2022
This paper examines current practices that embrace the union between foreign language (L2) teaching and translation in higher education (HE). The rejection of monolingualism and prescriptive principles in favour of bi-, multi-, or plurilingualism; a diversified interdisciplinarity; new sociocultural realities characterised by greater international…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Mutahar Qassem; Buthainah M. Al Thowaini – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Leveraging technological tools in educational research expands investigations into participants' behaviors and provides insights into learning patterns and teaching effectiveness through innovative data collection and analysis methods. Using keylogging data software, this study explored trainee translators' process and product behaviors under two…
Descriptors: Journalism, Translation, Keyboarding (Data Entry), Language Processing
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Elisabet Titik Murtisari; Andreas Kukuh Kristianto; Gary Bonar – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Rapid improvements in the capabilities of machine translation (MT) raise questions about possible increases in overreliance on MT among lower-proficiency or novice level language learners. This study investigated how such learners described their use of online MT for independent reading and writing tasks, and whether this included descriptions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation, Computational Linguistics
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Kexin Li; Wei Su – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Incorporating Vygotsky's concepts of scaffolding and Zone of Proximal Development, this paper presents a qualitative study examining student roles in dialogic peer feedback learning, focusing on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students in mixed translation proficiency triads within an English-Chinese translation course. During feedback…
Descriptors: Student Role, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Díaz-Millón, Mar; Rivera-Trigueros, Irene; Gutiérrez-Artacho, Juncal – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The new contexts in higher education, shifting from face-to-face to online scenarios, encourage the application of disruptive methodologies adapted to distance learning. Translation and interpreting (T&I) programmes ideally foster the acquisition of competencies such as self-study, which graduates need to enter a largely freelance and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Translation, Professional Education
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Sittirak, Nantana; Na Ranong, Sirirat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Instrumental competence is universally considered a compulsory competence for translators. Given its significance, this study investigated the instrumental competence of novice translators in translating from and into a foreign language. To this end, an experiment was conducted with a group of 31 Thai EFL learners who had taken English-Thai…
Descriptors: Novices, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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