The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater or GBA), a megalopolis in China, has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results recent years. This study aims to explore the translation–development interactions GBA from an emergent semiotic perspective. Following studies on translation development (Marais, 2014, 2018; Olivier de Sarden, 2005), this views as process of making meani...

One of the primary functions of a translator is to mediate not only between languages but also between cultures. As ideology is one of the crucial cultural constraints, it is essential to teach students that selection of translation strategy is always either implicitly or explicitly affected by the translator’s ideology. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of intr...

this research was conducted to examine whether there was a significant difference between the quality of translations produced by translation students who used bilingual (english to farsi) dictionaries with that of those using monolingual (english to english) dictionaries. to this end, 78 senior undergraduate students of english translation took part in a piloted english proficiency test, 60 of...

The goal of BancTrad is to offer the possibility to access and search through (parallel) annotated corpora via the Internet. This paper presents the design of the whole process: from text compilation and processing to actually performing queries via the web, while it describes as well its technical architecture. The languages we work with are Catalan, Spanish, English, German and French. Querie...

There is a large variety of goals instructors have for laboratory courses, with different courses focusing on subsets goals. An often implicit, but crucial, goal to develop students’ attitudes, views, and expectations about experimental physics align practicing physicists. The assessment upon this one dimension learning has been intensively studied in U.S. institutions using the Colorado Learni...