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 -- 14
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027231901
Subjects: Translating and interpreting -- Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: testing and assessment in translation and interpreting; title: 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.