Using corpora with Taiwanese college students in a student-centred, corpus-assisted translation curriculum
Previous studies show that corpora are helpful to translation teaching and learning in numerous ways; however, the studentsâ use of and attitudes towards corpus-assisted translation are seldom discussed. This research addresses the following two issues regarding the implementation of a student-centred corpus-assisted translation approach with twenty-nine Taiwanese university students undertaking English-majors. Firstly, how do students use corpora to leam translation, and what are students' perceived benefits and difficulties in this process? Secondly, is the approach helpful to the studentsâ learning attitudes towards translation? A case study of the approach was conducted to investigate how the designed curriculum was taught and how students responded to it. The selected corpora for the approach are Sinorama bilingual corpus and British National Corpus (BNC), and the corresponding corpus tools are Total Recall and Tango. Questionnaires, student group interviews, studentsâ online feedback, pre-test and post-test, and query log analysis were adopted as instruments to verify the results. The results show that the intermediate leveled students preferred Total Recall to Tango because they are dependent
Cheng, Shih-Ping
Using corpora with Taiwanese college students in a student-centred, corpus-assisted translation curriculum. Previous studies show that corpora are helpful to translation teaching and learning in numerous ways; however, the studentsâ use of and attitudes towards corpus-assisted translation are seldom discussed. This research addresses the following two issues regarding the implementation of a student-centred corpus-assisted translation approach with twenty-nine Taiwanese university students undertaking English-majors. Firstly, how do students use corpora to leam translation, and what are students' perceived benefits and difficulties in this process? Secondly, is the approach helpful to the studentsâ learning attitudes towards translation? A case study of the approach was conducted to investigate how the designed curriculum was taught and how students responded to it. The selected corpora for the approach are Sinorama bilingual corpus and British National Corpus (BNC), and the corresponding corpus tools are Total Recall and Tango. Questionnaires, student group interviews, studentsâ online feedback, pre-test and post-test, and query log analysis were adopted as instruments to verify the results. The results show that the intermediate leveled students preferred Total Recall to Tango because they are dependent
using corpora taiwanese college student student centred corpus_assisted translation curriculum previous_study show corpora helpful translation teach learn numerous way however student use attitude_towards corpus_assisted translation seldom discuss address_follow issue regard implementation student centred corpus_assisted translation twenty taiwanese university_student undertaking english firstly student use corpora translation student perceive_benefit difficulty process secondly helpful student_learn attitude_towards translation case_study conduct investigate design curriculum taught student respond select corpus bilingual corpus british_national_corpus correspond corpus tool total recall questionnaires student group_interview student online feedback pre_test post test query log analysis adopt instrument verify result show intermediate_level student preferred total recall dependent