A corpus-based investigation of explicitation patterns between professional and student interpreters in Chinese-English consecutive interpreting

2017-2018 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal201802 bcrcAccepted ManuscriptOthersThe Youth Project in Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education of China [grant number 15YJC740074], Center for Translation Studies of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies [grant number CTS201505] and the 8th ‘China Foreign Language Education Funds’ [grant number ZGWYJYJJ2016B48]Publishe

Explicitation patterns in English-Chinese consecutive interpreting: Differences between professional and trainee interpreters

2015-2016 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptOthersInnovative School Project in Higher Education of Guangdong, China [GWTP-BS-2014-16] and the Teaching Research Project of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies [GWJYQN14006]Publishe

Translation competence acquisition. Design and results of the PACTE group’s experimental research

This issue provides a study on translation competence acquisition (TCA). The study consisted of an TCA experiment involving 129 first to fourth year trainee translators and recent graduates. The experiment was conducted in November 2011, when the first-year subjects had just begun their degree course; the graduates had completed their studies in June 2011. Firstly, the conceptual and methodological framework of the research is described. Then the study's measurements and results beginning with translation acceptability (a cross-cutting indicator whose results are brought together with those of most of the other indicators) are presented, and followed by the different study variables: knowledge of translation; translation project; identification and solution of translation problems; decision-making; efficacy of the translation process; and use of instrumental resources. Finally, the study's conclusions, defining features of TCA, are presented. The publication also includes six online appendices containing the hypotheses, the main instruments used, the statistical test results and a glossary of key terms from the researc