Found in Translation: Experimenting on/with students

Found in Translation is a lecture series that discusses the latest issues and developments in the research on translation, interpreting and localization, carried out by Monterey Institute faculty and invited guests. Found in Translation echoes the interdisciplinary nature of the current field of Translation and Interpreting Studies.

In this episode, Anthony Pym presents on September 29, 2009.

There is a growing body of research on what happens in the translators brain. The challenge is now to find ways to apply that research to the ways translators are trained. One way is to conduct simple experiments in the translation class, not so that students become guinea pigs but to help them discover things about their own translation processes.

This talk will present the results of experiments conducted in my classes in Monterey in 2008 and 2009, dealing with language-specific translation norms, the impact of different translation instructions, the use of human-revised machine translation output, and the speed variable.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• translation
• interpretation