Eye Movements and Gestures in Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting

Abstract

The series brings together volumes dealing with different aspects of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. The titles included are both monographs and edited collections focusing on a variety of topics ranging from the processes underlying second language acquisition, through various aspects of language learning in instructed and non-instructed settings, to different facets of the teaching process, including syllabus choice, materials design, classroom practices and evaluation. The publications reflect state-of-the-art developments in those areas, they adopt a wide range of theoretical perspectives and follow diverse research paradigms. The intended audience are all those who are interested in naturalistic and classroom second language acquisition, including researchers, methodologists, curriculum and materials designers, teachers and undergraduate and graduate students undertaking empirical investigations of how second languages are learnt and taught.

Eye-Tracking in Interpreting Studies: A Review of Four Decades of Empirical Studies

“…Saliency models goes beyond simply describing eye movements by predicting where interpreters might look, thus deepening our understanding of interpreting. Additionally, since interpreting is a complex activity ( Hale, 2010 ; Stachowiak-Szymczak, 2020 ), results from IS with eye tracking constitute valuable information for comparison between and evaluation of the performance of different saliency models ( He et al, 2019 ).…”

“…As interpreting is a complex linguistic activity ( Hale, 2010 ; Stachowiak-Szymczak, 2020 ) and researchers do not have immediate access to interpreters’ brain, they resort to various methods to look into the “black box” of interpreting processing. These methods can be classified as offline or online ones.…”

Making the Most of Retrospective Process Tracing in Dialogue Interpreting Research

“…A third method using non-verbal means measures interpreters' electrodermal (or galvanic skin) responses (Korpal and Jasielska, 2019). Keystroke logging is not particularly relevant to the study of interpreting, given that interpreters do not use a keyboard; however, a variation on this method has been employed in studies logging interpreters' use of visual support (Seeber, 2012;Stachowiak-Szymczak, 2019). Eye-tracking is a potentially productive method for use in interpreting studies, as illustrated by its use in studies involving reading back notes from consecutive interpreting (Chen, 2018) and tracking dialogue interpreters' gaze (Vranjes et al 2018;Tiselius and Sneed, submitted).…”

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“…Saliency models goes beyond simply describing eye movements by predicting where interpreters might look, thus deepening our understanding of interpreting. Additionally, since interpreting is a complex activity (Hale, 2010;Stachowiak-Szymczak, 2020), results from IS with eye tracking constitute valuable information for comparison between and evaluation of the performance of different saliency models (He et al, 2019).…”

“…As interpreting is a complex linguistic activity (Hale, 2010;Stachowiak-Szymczak, 2020) and researchers do not have immediate access to interpreters' brain, they resort to various methods to look into the "black box" of interpreting processing. These methods can be classified as offline or online ones.…”