Translating in times of crisis: A study about the emotional effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the translation of evaluative language

López, Ana María Rojo; Sánchez, Beatriz Naranjo

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.01.018

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“…Thus, cortisol response started to decrease from the moment translation students started to translate, which might be due to an increased attentional response to the translation task. This plausible explanation has been also pointed out by Rojo López, Cifuentes-Férez, and Espín-López (2021) on translating under time pressure and other existing results on translation research which indicate that a decrease in cortisol response seems likely to be caused by attentional focus to the task (Rojo López & Naranjo Sánchez, 2021;Rojo López, Ramos Caro, & Espín López, 2021).…”

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Self-efficacy as a protective factor when translating under time pressure

Cifuentes-Férez

2024

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The goal of this paper is to investigate the relations between translation trainees’ self-efficacy and hormonal and subjective responses to the stressful situation of translating under strict time constraints and how these may impact their actual translation performance. With that purpose in mind, participants completed a questionnaire in which they were asked about their self-efficacy beliefs (Costa, Serrano, Salvador, 2016) and two other self-reported questionnaires: the State-and-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, and Jacobs, 1983), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson, Clark, and Tellegen, 1988). They were asked to translate three comparable literary texts from English into Spanish under different time limit conditions. When finished, they completed a questionnaire on their perceptions and feelings about their performance. Besides, five cortisol salivary samples were collected at different points in time during the experimental session. Overall, our results showed that self-efficacy beliefs are a protective factor against stress that reduces the negative impact of translating under time-pressure conditions. Regarding translation quality, trainees with higher self-efficacy seem to produce less accurate target texts in terms of meaning under stringent time pressure than students with lower self-efficacy beliefs. Moreover, a higher level of cortisol seems to have a beneficial effect on accuracy for the same condition.

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Self-efficacy as a protective factor when translating under time pressure

Cifuentes-Férez

2024

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“…The creativeness and quality of the translated text have been influenced by translators' feelings. Therefore, positive feelings increase the attention span and develop flexible and creative thinking, while negative emotional states decrease attention span and foster critical thinking and particular problem-solving manners [ 30 ]. Jääskeläinen [ 28 ] stated that the emergence of translation psychology “implied rethinking translation as a complex process involving human psychological factors succinctly addressed in the translation competence models” [p. 193].…”

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“…Lopez and Naranjo [ 30 ] studied the emotional effect of contextually-based source texts and their Spanish translation students' performance in translation and reading comprehension. 69 Spanish translation undergraduate pupils offered to participate in the study.…”

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Towards the effects of translators’ emotional intelligence and anxiety on their translation quality

Qiu

2023

Heliyon

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“… Rojo-López and Naranjo (2021) examined the relationship between the emotional impact of contextually relevant source texts (STs) and behavior among translation students. The students completed translations on two English STs with varying evaluative attitudes about the COVID-19 pandemic, including pessimistic and optimistic framing.…”

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“…They found that optimistic versus pessimistic attitudes predicted translation strategies, levels of affect, and anxiety levels immediately after the exercises. Students for whom the COVID-19 pandemic was framed more optimistically showed a lower emotional attenuation in their translations, implying that pessimistic participants were more likely to alter the texts by “intensifying or attenuating the ST emotional content” ( Rojo-López and Naranjo, 2021 , p. 37).…”

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Self-Efficacy in the Prediction of GPA and Academic Computer Use in Undergraduate Translation Students at a Saudi University

Brashi

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions have faced the challenge of understanding the social-psychological features that produce better academic performance among translation students in an online learning environment. Although self-efficacy is widely studied in a variety of teaching and learning models, few studies have examined self-efficacy in regard to translation students. This empirical study aims to examine the roles of general self-efficacy and computer self-efficacy in terms of the academic achievement and computer use of translation students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants included 83 undergraduate translation students at the English Language Department of Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia. They completed the General Self-Efficacy Scale and Computer Self-Efficacy Scale questionnaires. The results found self-efficacy scores were a significant predictor of overall GPA scores, highly predictive of computer self-efficacy, and also predicted an increased typing frequency and computer usage. This study suggests that translation students with greater levels of self-efficacy will be more likely to possess social-psychological features that align with the independent, self-directed nature of online learning environments.

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Translating in times of crisis: A study about the emotional effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the translation of evaluative language

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Self-efficacy as a protective factor when translating under time pressure

Self-efficacy as a protective factor when translating under time pressure

Towards the effects of translators’ emotional intelligence and anxiety on their translation quality

Self-Efficacy in the Prediction of GPA and Academic Computer Use in Undergraduate Translation Students at a Saudi University

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