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Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Sight translation has been widely used in aptitude testing to screen prospective trainee interpreters at leading interpreter training schools, including ESIT, ISIT, and EMCI. However, it has also been criticised for its lack of validity and reliability. No empirical study has thus far been conducted to explore its power to predict interpreting…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Su, Wei – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Past studies on aptitude for interpreting have investigated the correlation between personal traits and achievement, yet relatively few have singled out students' emotional state as an important aptitude constituent or tracked its developmental patterns. To address this gap, the present study followed 116 Chinese students of interpreting for five…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Ting; Loerts, Hanneke; Steinkrauss, Rasmus – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple languages simultaneously in adulthood. Among the cognitive abilities which play a role in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Learning, Multilingualism
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Shadiev, Rustam; Huang, Yueh Min – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Some students are unable to fully comprehend lecture content delivered in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) because of their low linguistic competence. This negatively impacts their academic emotions and learning satisfaction. Speech-enabled language translation (SELT) technology was applied in this study to simultaneously translate lecture…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Yi – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The research on interpreting aptitude has focused on the abilities, skills and personal traits of individuals in order to predict their future interpreting performance. However, an important variable between the personal characteristics and success of trainee interpreters in interpreter training, which is instructional practices, is overlooked.…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Aptitude, Feedback (Response), Short Term Memory
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Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
As a form of aptitude testing for interpreting, recall across languages has long been considered as a valid means of assessing candidates' linguistic, cognitive and communicative abilities. However, most of the existing research on this topic is only derived from the consensus among or the professional experience of interpreting researchers,…
Descriptors: Translation, Validity, Recall (Psychology), Language Tests