This paper presents experiments on the human ranking task performed during WMT2013. The goal of these experiments is to re-run the human evaluation task with translation studies students and to compare the results with the human rankings performed by the WMT development teams during WMT2013. More specifically, we test whether we can reproduce, and if yes to what extent, the WMT2013 ranking task...

The dominance of English as the world language of publication has had a decisive impact on the dissemination of information and innovation across cultures, with a resulting tendency to a standardization of scientific conceptualization. This dominance does not only impact scientific and academic discourse, but also the whole range of professional and technical texts representative of various spe...

The paper researches the use of audiovisual material for formation aviation subject matter competence translation students. research involved a pedagogical experiment aimed at verification hypothesis that systemic content-oriented accompanied by specifically developed complex training activities enhances students’ knowledge professionally relevant and skills in adequate terminology technical la...

English-speaking college students who were enrolled in a German course read a 762-word German language story presented by a computer program. For key words in the story, students could choose to see a translation on the screen in English (i.e., verbal annotation) or view a picture or video clip representing the word (i.e,, visual annotation), or both. Students remembered word translations bette...

The present quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design investigated the impact of back-translation teaching collaborative activities on Iranian English translation students’ achievement. To this end, 30Iranian EFL students studying at Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch were nominated based convenience sampling. Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and p...

We describe a multilingual Open Source CALL game, CALL-SLT, which reuses speech translation technology developed using the Regulus platform to create an automatic conversation partner that allows intermediate-level language students to improve their uency. We contrast CALL-SLT with Wang's and Seneff's “translation game” system, in particular focussing on three issues. First, we argue that the g...

the present study sought to investigate the evidence for cross-linguistic transfer in a partial english immersion and non-immersion educational setting. to this end, a total of 145 first, third and fifth graders in a partial english immersion program and 95 students from the same grade levels in a non-immersion program were chosen. six different english and persian tests were administered: the ...

This research sought to identify the translation strategies adopted by the translator in Persian translation of 'whatever after, Fairest of all' written by 'Sarah Mlynowski' based on Klingberg's model (1986). To achieve the objectives of the study, a qualitative content analysis design was selected for it. The corpus of the study consisted of 60 pages of the novel 'whatever after, Fairest of al...