RT Journal Article
T1 Text Simplification In A Case Study With A Translation Student With Asperger’s Syndrome.
A1 Toledo-Báez, María Cristina
K1 Traducción - Calidad
K1 Traducción - Evaluación
AB The aim of our paper is to present a case study carried out with a Translation and Interpreting student with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) in the framework of the e-learning project “TRADICOR: Corpora Management System for the Teaching Innovation in Translation and Interpreting” (PIE13-054). Our hypothesis is the following: when students with AS translate texts, simplification at two levels (text simplification and instructions simplifications) represents an improvement on translation quality and entails a better understanding of instructions. To confirm this hypothesis, the following four goals have been established: 1) apply text  implification to instructions in Spanish and to source texts in Spanish using Anula’s recommendations; 2) checking the readability of the Spanish simplified and non-simplified source texts and instructions using two Spanish formulae: the Flesch-SzigrisztIndex and the Fernández Huerta Index; 3) assessing target texts using Toledo Báez’s analytic assessment template inorder to check whether text simplification implies an improvement on translation quality; 4) test whether the  participant has better understood simplified explicit instructions than non-simplified explicit instructions. As a summary of the results, it has been proven that instructions simplification does have a positive impact on the comprehension and the participant could accomplish theassignment. However, non-simplified instructions hinder comprehension as the participant was not able to accomplishthe assignment. Regarding translation quality, the difference between simplified texts and non-simplified texts is notrelevant and texts show similar errors.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28840
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28840
LA eng
NO Toledo Báez, M. Cristina (2018). Text Simplification in a Case Study with a Translation Student with Asperger’s Syndrome. Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E, 5, 395 -436.
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