Disfluency in relay and non-relay simultaneous interpreting

Song, Shuxian; Cheung, Andrew K.F.

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“…There is also a need to give students a sense of breaking down their career goals and relating them to their everyday life and study activities ( Ling et al, 2022 ). Additionally, both future work self-salience and elaboration can be upgraded through the career-oriented TTT approach, such as simulating real-work scenarios ( Alcina et al, 2007 ), engaging students in authentic translation projects ( He and Tao, 2022 ), considering how professionals perform ( Song and Cheung, 2019 ; Ma and Cheung, 2020 ; Wu et al, 2021 ), enhancing ties with the industry, and integrating translation technology into other core translation courses ( Bowker and Marshman, 2010 ). All of these could bring students closer to the real professional environment and allow them to know about the latest application of translation technology in the workplace.…”

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Investigating students’ attitudes towards translation technology: The status quo and structural relations with translation mindsets and future work self

Tian

Jia²,

Zhang³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionDespite the growing attention paid to the research of translation technology teaching (TTT), there is still a lack of studies on students’ attitudes and the motivational factors in relation to it. To this end, the paper reports on a questionnaire-based study that describes students’ attitudes towards translation technology (in the Chinese MTI context) and explores its structural relations with translation mindsets and future work self.MethodsData were collected from 108 grade 2021 MTI students of three selected Chinese universities and analyzed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling (SEM).ResultsThe results demonstrate that Chinese MTI students’ overall attitudes towards translation technology are slightly positive. So far, they perceive translation technology to be slightly effective for translation and are slightly mindful of it. They are slightly influenced by teachers and still feel inhibited when learning and using it. Furthermore, the results also indicate that growth translation mindsets positively influence students’ attitudes towards the effectiveness of translation technology, teacher influence, exhibition to translation technology, and mindfulness about translation technology, whereas fixed translation mindsets only negatively predict students’ teacher influence. Likewise, future work self-salience positively associates with students’ attitudes towards the effectiveness of translation technology and mindfulness about translation technology, while future work self-elaboration positively relates to students’ exhibition to translation technology. Among them, growth translation mindsets are the strongest predictor for all attitudes components.DiscussionTheoretical and pedagogical implications are also discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Investigating students’ attitudes towards translation technology: The status quo and structural relations with translation mindsets and future work self

Tian

Jia²,

Zhang³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…The United Nations (UN) has been a champion of multilingualism, recognized by its General Assembly as a core value. Simultaneous interpreting (SI) of six UN official languages is normally available at UN's Security Council open meetings (Ma & Cheung, 2020;Song & Cheung, 2019;Wu et al, 2021). It was essential for the Security Council to continue its daily meetings, especially during the period when the pandemic was rampaging globally.…”

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COVID-19 and Interpreting

Cheung¹

2022

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“…In another study by Napier (2003) of Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN) interpreters analyzing omissions from a sociolinguistic perspective, the frequency of omissions was found to be positively correlated with the density of the text. Both these elements impaired the performance of the interpreters during the media briefings (Cheung, 2012), as not only did the reporters often pose loaded questions, but the rapid exchanges between the ministers and the reporters directly reduced the amount of processing time that the interpreters had, reducing the fluency of their production (Song & Cheung, 2019). The interpreters expressed frustration when interpreting during the media briefing:…”

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Media Interpreting Into Malaysian Sign Language

Chew¹,

Cheung²

2022

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During the two years that Malaysia was under intermittent lockdown under the COVID-19 pandemic, the public paid close attention to the daily media briefings from the Ministry of Health and Home Affairs Ministry. While the public waited eagerly for the press conferences, a small corner of the television screen with a gesturing individual caught their imagination, and there were many viral memes and discussions in the social media. This study examines these public perceptions through the lens of personal accounts and retrospective interviews with each of the sign language interpreters to examine the challenges and demands they encountered when working in the context of a civil and health emergency. The impact, control measures, and general wellbeing of these sign language interpreters pre-, during, and post-coverage are analyzed to provide comprehensive insight into their experiences of the Catch-22 situations where they found it difficult to break away. These personal accounts are contrasted with the perceptions of the Malaysian Deaf Community, who were highly critical of the interpreters’ skills regarding their understanding of the degree of accessibility and the quality of their interpretation of technical and critical information under circumstances when the interpreters themselves and the audience were under tremendous stress from the bombardment of dire news, global uncertainties, and unrelieved economic pressures. This study debunks many of the myths and misconceptions of the public on the Deaf Community and sign language interpreters, such as the use of a standardized or universal sign language, the environmental demands of interpreting during a crisis, the conflicting interpersonal and intrapersonal moments experienced by the interpreters, and the linguistic and paralinguistic demands encountered during the press conferences. Even interpreters with many decades of interpreting on television and in the community found their personal worldviews as well as their understanding of their role and their profession dramatically altered and reassessed because of interpreting during these two unprecedented years.

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Disfluency in relay and non-relay simultaneous interpreting

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Investigating students’ attitudes towards translation technology: The status quo and structural relations with translation mindsets and future work self

Investigating students’ attitudes towards translation technology: The status quo and structural relations with translation mindsets and future work self

COVID-19 and Interpreting

Media Interpreting Into Malaysian Sign Language

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