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Babel
Vol. 67:4 (2021) ► pp.460–481

Investigating translation trainees’ self-perceived competence

A process-oriented, collaborative seminar on translation and translation revision

| University of Salerno
| University of Ferrara

Pushed by the increasing internationalization of education and recent economic dynamics, training programs are shifting their focus to acquiring competences and know-how through real-life materials to enhance learners’ employability and access to the work market. Moreover, recent research has called for the implementation of editing/revision content in translation programs, overcoming the assumed distance between translation and editing/revision professions. In light of social constructivism and process-oriented pedagogical trends in translation training, an intensive twenty-hour seminar was designed and piloted in a Master’s degree program in Specialized Translation with the intent of increasing students’ awareness of the translation process, including translation revision and their sense of perceived competence. Rasch analysis of pre- and post-test questionnaires detected positive changes in students’ self-perceived proficiency in translation, translation revision, and editing, with critical implications for the usefulness of process-oriented, realistic approaches integrating both translation and editing/revision content in translation training programs.

Keywords: curricular development, curricular design in translation, editing, perceived competence, translation revision, translation training
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Shifts in translator training approaches
  • Foregrounding translation revision
  • The Awareness in Editing and Translation seminar
  • Materials and method
    • Participants
    • Instruments
    • Statistical model
    • Reliability statistics
  • Results and discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 8 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00232.lat
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