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Publication type:	Lecture
Title:	Products of what processes? : combining cognitive and socio-technical aspects of process-oriented translator education
Authors:	Massey, Gary
Issue Date:	23-Aug-2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	University of Melbourne
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Melbourne
Language:	English
Subjects:	Socio-technical system; Translation process research; Translation; Translator education
Subject (DDC):	418.02: Translating and interpreting
Abstract:	Since Krings’ (1986) ground-breaking exploration of translators’ cognitive processes, a variety of tools and techniques have been applied to investigate the way student and professional translators go about producing their target texts. A number of these have been successfully deployed in translator education to stimulate learner reflection and self-regulation, more recently in the increasingly popular use of screen recording combined with forms of intro- or retrospection and peer evaluation. Some research also indicates that certain process measures correlate with translation quality and could even predict subsequent performance, suggesting that the traditionally product-oriented diagnostic, formative and summative assessment of translation performance might be complemented by readily applicable criteria based on observable actions and behaviour – as opposed to the more widespread reliance on descriptive self-report to access learners’ processes. Yet, due to their narrow focus on individual cognitive activity at the human-computer interface, these teaching and assessment methods cannot encompass the full socio-technical event of professionally situated translation, which learners are often left to discover in authentic experiential scenarios. In this talk, I therefore consider the feasibility of an integrated approach to incorporating methods oriented on internal (cognitive) and external (socio-technical) processes into translator education. After looking at ways in which such methods have been applied, researched and evaluated discretely, I shall sketch out opportunities for combining the two distinct but related aspects of process orientation in teaching and didactic research.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5126
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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