- Title
- Translation technology adoption: evidence from a postgraduate programme for student translators in China
- Creator
- Man, Deliang; Mo, Aiping; Chau, Meng Huat; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Lee, Charity
- Relation
- Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Vol. 28, Issue 2, p. 253-270
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1677730
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The ability to use translation technology is considered a key component of a translator’s translation competence. However, few studies have investigated the extent of use of translation technology, especially among student translators. This paper reports on a survey of translation technology adoption among 441 students enrolled on a Master-level Programme in Translation and Interpreting. A questionnaire was used to measure student knowledge and frequency of use for six common types of translation technology tools and resources: electronic dictionaries, search engines, online encyclopaedias, corpora, machine translation and computer-aided translation tools. The results show that there is a strong, positive correlation between student knowledge and their use of translation technology. More specifically, the second-year students generally used translation technology more frequently than the first-year students. This paper provides a baseline for future comparisons of translation technology use, which has implications for teaching translation technology in China and similar contexts elsewhere.
- Subject
- translation technology; technology adoption; student translators; Master of Translation and Interpreting
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1440360
- Identifier
- uon:41133
- Identifier
- ISSN:0907-676X
- Language
- eng
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