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Albir, Amparo Hurtado; Galán-Mañas, Anabel; Kuznik, Anna; Olalla-Soler, Christian; Rodríguez-Inés, Patricia; Romero, Lupe – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
This issue provides a study on translation competence acquisition (TCA). The study consisted of an TCA experiment involving 129 first to fourth year trainee translators and recent graduates. The experiment was conducted in November 2011, when the first-year subjects had just begun their degree course; the graduates had completed their studies in…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, Language Processing, Language Usage
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Hlavac, Jim – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Aptitude is a hypernym used in training and practice-based contexts to refer to a person's natural or acquired ability to do something. It tends to be an attribute that is 'forward-looking', i.e. referring to a person's probability of achieving success in the future. This paper adopts a retrospective perspective in looking at the 'success…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Success, Translation, Language Aptitude