Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)

Session: Current Issues in Translation Studies

5 articles
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Internet Linguodidactics and Blended Translation Studies at Higher 1/2

Irina Vasilyeva
Didactics, design and implementation of the experimental project on written and oral Translation Studies (American Business English specialized translation course) with the help of Blended online technologies and resources. The project was based on online wiki site http://amvkclass.pbworks.com/ and regular...
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Psychophysiological and Linguistic Testing for Students Enrolled in Interpreter and Translator Training Programs

Svetlana Visharenko, Irina Gordeeva
Contemporary technologies have made it possible to carry out "anticipatory" testing in order to evaluate the students' potential in their chosen field of study. Both linguistic testing and interdisciplinary approach appear useful. In addition to linguistic testing, a number of other research methods...
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Social translation in Spain and the Netherlands: didactic aspect

Olga Voiku
Studying the experience of teaching of social translators in Spain and the Netherlands will help to improve the education process of the translators in Russia in the field of Dutch-Russian and Spanish-Russian languages.
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The Theoretical Problems of Quality Assessment in Translation

Victor Shadrin
The paper deals with one of the fundamental problems of modern Translation Studies - quality assessment techniques in translation. An integrated approach to solving the problem is suggested, a hierarchical organization of normative quality parameters is presented.
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Crowdsourcing in Translation: The Problem of Motivation

Natalia Silinskaya
Crowdsourcing translation is becoming more and more popular. The article is dedicated to the factors motivating unprofessional volunteer translators to participate in crowdsourcing projects (material interests, a sense of inclusion, social recognition, cognitive interest, altruism, etc.). It also considers...