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T1 A survey-based case study to assess the computer skills of incoming first-year students in Translation and Interpreting
A1 Plaza-Lara, Cristina
K1 Innovaciones tecnológicas
K1 Aptitud
K1 Traducción - Estudio y enseñanza superior - Estudio de casos
AB In Translation Studies, the translator’s instrumental competence, directly related to computer knowledge, has gained significant importance and computer- assisted translation or localisation skills are nowadays essential to access the labour market. In order to teach students to use these specific technologies in the translation field, it is necessary that they have in advance a solid base of computer skills. For this reason, this paper presents a survey- based case study that aims to shed light on the level of computerknowledge that incoming first- year students have when they start their studies in Translation and Interpreting. The research has been carried out in a Spanish university and the aim is to confirm whether the group of students that took part in the study hadpreviously developed the technological skills needed to start developing the translator’s instrumental competence. Although the study only focuses on a Spanish academic institution and conclusions cannot be extrapolated to other scenarios until further research is carried out, according to the results provided by the group, it has been concluded that, in spite of the fact that students cannot be considered illiterate with regard to their use of new technologies, their general computer skills should be reinforced during the degree before they are introduced to the use of more specialised translation tools.
PB Peter Lang
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30979
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30979
LA eng
NO Plaza-Lara, C. (2022). A survey-based case study to assess the computer skills of incoming first-year students in Translation and Interpreting. En K Popek-Bernat (ed.), Normatividad, equivalencia y calidad en la traducción e interpretación de lenguas ibéricas (pp. 289-310). Peter Lang.
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