The hidden curriculum revealed in study trip reflective essays

Cheung, Andrew K.F.

doi:10.1075/ata.xix.19che

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“…Fulfilling such goals could allow students to feel a sense of agency ( Zarrinabadi et al, 2022 ). Teachers could give more praise and feedback to the students and encourage them to elaborate on their thoughts, for instance, through reflective essays ( Cheung, 2019 ). Besides these, there are multiple other pedagogical strategies that teachers could further explore.…”

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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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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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“…Simultaneous interpreting of all six official languages resumed gradually following the implementation of remote simultaneous interpreting, a form of distance interpreting. Diplomats posted to the United Nations from non-English speaking countries may be proficient in English and may not rely on simultaneous interpreting services when English is used (Cheung, 2019;Wu et al, 2021). The fact that the Security Council could continue its daily meetings without the involvement of interpreters is a wakeup call to both interpreting trainees and trainers to reflect on the roles of interpreters and the purposes of interpreting services.…”

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COVID-19 and Interpreting

Cheung¹

2022

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“…The interpreters did not receive any peer feedback or seek supervision beyond casual exchange of messages and phone calls to de-stress The lack of peer feedback is common among professional interpreters at international organizations such as the United Nations (Cheung, 2019). It is argued in psychology literature that counseling methods to revisit emotional responses can trigger re-traumatization instead of promoting resilience in service providers (Hawker et al, 2011).…”

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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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The hidden curriculum revealed in study trip reflective essays

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 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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