Testing and assessment in translation and interpreting studies
Subtitle: a call for dialogue between research and practice
By: edited by Claudia V. Angelelli, Holly E. Jacobson.
Contributors: Angelelli, Claudia; Jacobson, Holly E.
Series: American Translators Association scholarly monograph series -- v. 14
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789027231901
Subjects: Translating and interpreting -- Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Testing and assessment in translation and interpreting studies: a call for dialogue between research and practice / Claudia V. Angelelli and Holly E. Jacobson; title: Part I. The development of assessment instruments: theoretical applications. Using a rubric to assess translation ability: defining the construct / Claudia V. Angelelli; title: Moving beyond words in assessing mediated interaction: measuring interactional competence in healthcare settings / Holly E. Jacobson; title: Part II. The development of assessment instruments: empirical approaches. The perks of norm-referenced translation evaluation / June Eyckmans, Philippe Anckaert and Winibert Segers; title: Revisiting Carroll's scales / Elisabet Tiselius; title: Meaning-oriented assessment of translations: SFL and its application to formative assessment / Mira Kim; title: Assessing cohesion: developing assessment tools on the basis of comparable corpora / Brian James Baer and Tatyana Bystrova-McIntyre; title: Assessing software localization: for a valid approach / Keiran Dunne; title: Part III. Professional certification: lessons from case studies. The predictive validity of admission tests for conference interpreting courses in Europe: a case study / Šárka Timarová and Harry Ungoed-Thomas; title: Getting it right from the start: program admission testing of signed language interpreters / Karen Bontempo and Jemina Napier; title: Standards as critical success factors in assessment: certifying social interpreters in Flanders, Belgium / Hildegard Vermeiren, Jan Van Gucht and Leentje De Bontridder; title: Assessing ASL-English interpreters: the Canadian model of national certification / Debra Russell and Karen Malcolm.