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Abstract

Existing training programmes in the field of public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) do not to focus on how best to develop students’ lexical competence and corpora-based search skills. This paper reports the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel corpus-based module intended to develop Spanish postgraduate PSIT students’ lexical competence and search strategies. Adopting a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design, we administered a pre- and post-test to both an experimental group and a control group to collect quantitative data and determine whether the corpus-based module contributes to improving participants’ lexical competence and search strategies. Semi-structured focus groups were conducted to collect qualitative data, which were thematically analysed. The findings indicate that a corpus-based methodology significantly improves PSIT students’ skills in these areas, leading to the conclusion that such an approach should be adopted more widely in PSIT pedagogy.

Investigating Blended Learning Mode in Translation Competence Development

“…Put simply, quantitative studies have been conducted, for example, concerning the design and implementation of a corpus-based module to develop European students’ lexical competence and search strategies in translation (Ramos, 2022) or evaluating the use of translation technologies in translation pedagogy (Omar et al, 2020). However, it appears that there is a lack of in-depth and quantitative studies on the extent to which the blended learning mode can improve the teaching and training of students’ translation competence in the Chinese context.…”