Technology-Enhanced Translator Training
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The aim of the paper is to present an Open Source Learning Management System for creating courses in translation theory and practice. Some of its most important characteristics are: • Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or social format • Flexible array of course activities Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments • Full user logging and tracking activity reports for each student are available • Mail integration copies of forum posts and teacher feedback can be mailed • Assignment Module with due date and grade requirements The training includes the use of corpora (monoand bilingual) and TM tools, with tasks ranging from alignment of texts and creating a translation memory, to terminology extraction from specialized comparable language corpora and other translation projects.
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