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1、Commentingontranslation:implicationsfortranslatortrainingGaryMasseyandMaureenEhrensberger-Dow,InstituteofTranslationandInterpreting,ZurichUniversityofAppliedSciencesABSTRACTAstranslationresearchmovestowardsinvestigatingtranslationprocessesandnotjustproducts,researchershavebeguntoexaminet

2、heeffectsofthoseprocessesonthequalityoftargettexts.Translationproductsresultfromtheinteractionbetweenexpectationsofwhattranslationsshouldbeandthosepracticesandcompetencesbywhichtranslatorsproduceacceptabletranslationswithintemporalandeconomicconstraints.Translationprocessmodelssuggestwha

3、tcognitivedecisionprocessesmightinvolve,andcompetencemodelsoutlinetheexpertknowledgeandcognitivecomponentsassumednecessaryforeffectivetranslationwork.Intranslatortraining,translationprocesseshavetraditionallybeenaccessedandevaluatedthroughstudentannotationsandotherwrittencommentaries.Rec

4、ently,however,otherwaysofincludingexplicitinputonthetranslationprocesshavebeenproposed,includingthetransferofprocessresearchtechniquestounderstandingandevaluatingundergraduatestudents’translationperformance.Thispaperoutlineshowmethodstoinvestigatetranslationprocessescanprofitablybeapplie

5、dtotranslatortraining.ApilotstudyconductedinourMAprogrammeshowsthatmakingtranslationprocessestransparentprovidestrainersandstudentswithvaluableinsightsintotranslationbehaviour.Thistransparencyfacilitatesbetterneeds-orientedcoachingthanproduct-orientedevaluationscan,sincemanyoftheconsider

6、ationsinreachingtranslationsolutionscanbedirectlyobservedratherthanassumed.KEYWORDSTranslationprocessresearch,translationpedagogy,process-orientedtranslatortraining,translationevaluation1.IntroductionTranslationproductsresultfromtheinteractionbetweenexpectationsofwhattranslationsshouldbe

7、andthosepracticesandcompetencesthatallowtranslatorstoproduceacceptabletranslationswithinsometimesseveretemporalandeconomicconstraints.Animportantindicatorofpresent-daydemandsonprofessionalnon-literarytranslationistheEuropeanstandardEN15038(2006).Designedtogivetranslations