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Angelone, Erik. 2020. The impact of screen recording as a diagnostic process protocol on inter-rater consistency in translation assessment. JoSTrans 34 : 32–50. URL
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
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Target language

Abstract

Process-oriented translator research and training have entered the arena of translation assessment, with a focus on how end products can be interpreted from the perspective of translator decision-making and behaviours, as documented in the form of various process protocols. Screen-recording is frequently integrated as a preferred empirical method in the context of such research, thanks to its relative ease of use and the saliency of the process phenomena it documents. In extending on preliminary findings that have highlighted the efficacy of screen recording as a means for enhancing consistency in process assessment, this paper reports on a small-scale pilot study in which assessors marked up translation errors according to type and severity while using screen recording as a diagnostic protocol to guide the process. Results obtained from the study suggest that inter-rater consistency is enhanced when assessors of Spanish-English and Arabic-English translation make use of screen recording in this capacity as compared to when then they do not make use of a process protocol. Greater inter-rater consistency was evidenced in assessment for both language pairs, and in terms of both error type and severity point classification.
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