COVERT SIMULTANEOUS POST-EDITING IN ONLINE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ SIGHT TRANSLATION

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https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.295548

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online interpreter training;, specialised sight translation;, online assessment;, simultaneous post-editing;, machine translation;, strategies for covert MT use

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This first attempt aims to determine the extent of students’ covert use of machine translation (MT) in the online assessment of their sight translation, the strategies of such use, and its signs. The study is based on the analysis of target texts (TT) of specialised online sight translation from Ukrainian into English by 13 BA and 10 MA students. The procedure involved the comparison of the students' TTs with their MT counterparts. Signs of covert MT were found in 46% of the BA and 30% of the MA students’ translations. The main method of this covert MT use is "simultaneous post-editing", i.e., the immediate oral post-editing of the MT text generated by the students on their screens and hidden from the assessor, while they deliver their supposedly original TTs. Simultaneous post-editing strategies range from replacing individual lexemes with their synonyms, adding and deleting elements, changing the syntactic functions of words or phrases, rearranging sentence fragments, transforming their structure, to applying several of these strategies simultaneously. Other methods of concealment include alternating MT systems in translating the same source text, as well as artificially slowing down the process of reading the TT from the screen, accompanied by pauses in the relevant text fragments to perform certain mental operations. In order to increase objectivity, the author recommends a delayed assessment of students' online interpreting recordings. The research perspective is to study the didactic potential of simultaneous post-editing as a procedure for developing general interpreting skills.

 

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Leonid Mykolayovych Chernovaty, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University

LEONID CHERNOVATY, Doctor of Sciences, Professor of Mykola Lukash Translation Studies Department at V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv (Ukraine), and Visiting Researcher at the Department of English and American Studies at Matej Bel University (Slovakia). Full member of Higher School Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Lectures in Methodology of Translator and Interpreter Teaching and Training, Translation Studies and Specialised Translation and Interpreting. The author of the books Methodology of Translator and Interpreter Teaching and Training (2013), Reference Dictionary of Ukrainian Names (English - Ukrainian, Ukrainian – English with pronunciation and etymology) (with Eugen Schochenmaier), Monee, Il. (USA): Mondonomo, 2023, 468 p. ISBN: ‎ 978-95-35045-50-2, LCCN: 2023-932009, 2023), as well as over 300 research publications and textbooks on teaching English and specialised translation and interpreting.

Co-editor of the Dictum Factum and the editor of the UTTU series at the Nova Knyha publishers involved in the development and publishing materials for teaching English and translator/interpreter training. President of the Ukrainian Translator Trainers’ Union (UTTU). Research Interests: Psycholinguistics of Translation and Interpreting, Methodology of Translator and Interpreter Teaching and Training, Translation Studies, Specialised Translation and Interpreting, Terminology and Translation, Translation Process.

 

 

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2024-08-14

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Chernovaty, L. M. (2024). COVERT SIMULTANEOUS POST-EDITING IN ONLINE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ SIGHT TRANSLATION . Advanced Education, 12(24), 12–27. https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.295548

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