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Bringing source text quality into the legal translation classroom: training translators to face defective source texts. Ruiz Cortés, Elena Traducción - Estudio y enseñanza Derecho - Traducción https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/15057?from=single_hit Legal translators are routinely faced with defective source texts in their professional practice while being expected to produce effective translations despite such quality issues. Given the high-quality expectations required in legal translation, we have brought this professional reality into the classroom by outlining a quality control activity to allow legal translation trainees to systematise how they deal with defective Spanish administrative source texts. The proposal includes two steps: a translatability assessment and a pre-editing stage of defective administrative source texts. After empirically testing our proposal in the classroom, our initial findings suggest that this approach not only assists trainees to factor in poor source text quality when translating, but also to produce better translations. 2026-01-13T12:04:03Z 2026-01-13T12:04:03Z 2024-05-15 journal article Ruiz-Cortés, Elena (2024) Bringing source text quality into the legal translation classroom: training translators to face defective source texts, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 18:2, 230-249, DOI: 10.1080/1750399X.2024.2344154 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/41488 10.1080/1750399X.2024.2344154 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Taylor & Francis