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Master’s students’ post-editing perception and strategies
Exploratory study
- Source: FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation, Volume 18, Issue 1, Jun 2020, p. 26 - 44
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- 16 Jun 2020
Abstract
Abstract
The present article aims at presenting the results of an exploratory post-editing process study carried out in a Belgian university, the University of Mons. For this experiment, 64 final-year translation students with no post-editing experience post-edited from English into French parts of five different institutional texts from the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. They were additionally asked to fill in a prospective questionnaire and a retrospective one, related to their post-editing perception and strategies. Four students took part in the experiment on a separate computer equipped with an eye-tracking device, so that eye-tracking data could be collected and compared with these students’ questionnaires. We found that results related to eye-tracking data correlate well with previous research, and that students’ perceptions of post-editing depend on each university’s particular context.