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Research on Translator Training After the New Millennium: A Corpus-Based Review of Eight Journals on Translation Studies

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As a result of the rapid development of translation programs worldwide, the significance of research into translator training has become increasingly prominent. It is therefore necessary to summarize the regional features of translator training research in addition to a broad overview of current academic developments in the field . Given a lack of data-driven comparison of regional translation studies (TS), the present study aims to fill this gap. The results are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of 284 articles in English collected from eight TS journals since 2000. Findings of the study suggest a teaching -dominant perspective to translator training research over the last decade. Besides, each of the five continents was found to have idiosyncratic features in translator training research entries and themes. The study presents an innovative thematic “world map” of translator training on five continents, in addition to displaying the bibliometric features of the article entries in the corpus. As a global review of studies on translator training , this study will contribute to the enhancement of both training and research in translation.

Originally published in East Journal of Translation. Wang, Honghua, Jun Pan, and Jackie Xiu Yan. 2017. Research on translator training after the new millennium: A corpus-based review of eight journals on translation studies. East Journal of Translation CIUTI Issue:24-38. Permission of reproduction has been obtained from the journal.

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  1. Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Jackie Xiu Yan

  2. Translation Programme, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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  3. School of Translation, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Appendices

Appendix 1: Number of Entries in the Corpus by Thematic Categories

I. Thematic categories of articles in the corpus

     

Category level I

No.

Category level II

No.

Category level III

No.

(A) Teaching

230

(a) Teaching philosophies

96

(a) Theoretical concerns/framework

45

(b) Disciplinary typology

11

(c) Teaching elements

40

(b) Teaching methods and models

40

(a) Institutional teaching models

20

(b) Classroom teaching approaches

20

(c) Competence development

28

(a) General

4

(b) Translator competence

3

(c) Translation competence

21

(d) Needs analysis

13

  

(e) Technology and teaching

27

  

(f) Teaching of research skills

11

  

(g) Translation and language teaching

15

  

(B) Learning

32

(a) Learner performance

20

(a) Features

2

(b) Errors/difficulties

10

(c) Expertise development

8

(b) Learner factors

12

(a) Personality

1

(b) Anxiety and stress

1

(c) Learning styles

1

(d) Strategies

8

(e) Self efficacy

1

(C) Assessment

22

(a) Classroom assessment

17

(a) Theoretical framework

7

(b) Models and methods

10

(b) Professional accreditations and certifications

5

(a) Theoretical framework

1

(b) Models and methods

2

(c) Market needs

2

Appendix 2: List of Contributions by Country*

Region

Country

Number of articles

Region

Country

Number of

articles

 

Spain

64

Asia (68)

The Greater China

Areaa

33

The United Kingdom

29

United Arab

Emirates

6

Denmark

13

Israel

5

Germany

13

Jordan

5

Europe (180)

Finland

9

South

Korea

5

Italy

8

Iran

3

Belgium

7

Kingdom of

Bahrain

2

Ireland

7

Kuwait

2

Switzerland

7

Oman

2

Austria

5

Saudi Arabia

2

Slovenia

5

Palestine

1

Greece

4

Sri Lanka

1

France

3

Turkey

1

Norway

3

The

Americas (27)

The United States

16

Romania

3

Canada

10

Russia

3

Brazil

1

Poland

2

Jamaica

1

Portugal

2

Oceania (17)

Australia

17

Croatia

1

Africa (8)

South Africa

6

Cyprus

1

Libya

1

Estonia

1

Nigeria

1

Hungary

1

Slovakia

1

Sweden

1

  1. *Because Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, it was put in the category of Europe
  2. aThe contributors from the Greater China Area in the current corpus include Hong Kong (19 entries), the mainland of China (10 entries) and Taiwan (4 entries)

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Yan, J.X., Pan, J., Wang, H. (2018). Research on Translator Training After the New Millennium: A Corpus-Based Review of Eight Journals on Translation Studies. In: Research on Translator and Interpreter Training . New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6958-1_3

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