Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English

Saz, Óscar; Lin, Yibin; Eskénazi, Maxine

doi:10.1016/j.csl.2014.11.005

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“…However, translation alone can be problematic as it does not address other matters concerning cultural differences [ 21 ]. Translation may also create issues when measuring aspects such as fluency, as it will not be testing the same factor if translated and could manifest as longer response times [ 22 ]. The impact of culture may affect the validity of cognitive screening tests used to identify dementia and MCI through biases that may be related to the test itself, the administration and/or the interpretation of scores [ 8 ].…”

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The Effect of Translation and Cultural Adaptations on Diagnostic Accuracy and Test Performance in Dementia Cognitive Screening Tools: A Systematic Review

Czerwinski-Alley,

Chithiramohan,

Subramaniam

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Background: The current cognitive tests have been developed based on and standardized against Western constructs and normative data. With older people of minority ethnic background increasing across Western countries, there is a need for cognitive screening tests to address factors which influence performance bias and timely diagnostic dementia accuracy. The diagnostic accuracy in translated and culturally adapted cognitive screening tests and their impact on test performance in diverse populations have not been well addressed to date. Objective: This review aims to highlight considerations relating to the adaptation processes, language, cultural influences, impact of immigration, and level of education to assess for dementia in non-Western and/or non-English speaking populations. Methods: We conducted a systematic search for studies addressing the effects of translation and cultural adaptations of cognitive screening tests (developed in a Western context) upon their diagnostic accuracy and test performance across diverse populations. Four electronic databases and manual searches were conducted, using a predefined search strategy. A narrative synthesis of findings was conducted. Results: Search strategy yielded 2,890 articles, and seventeen studies (4,463 participants) met the inclusion criteria. There was variability in the sensitivity and specificity of cognitive tests, irrespective of whether they were translated only, culturally adapted only, or both. Cognitive test performance was affected by education, linguistic ability, and aspects of acculturation. Conclusions: We highlight the importance of translating and culturally adapting tests that have been developed in the Western context. However, these findings should be interpreted with caution as results varied due to the broad selection of included cognitive tests.

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The Effect of Translation and Cultural Adaptations on Diagnostic Accuracy and Test Performance in Dementia Cognitive Screening Tools: A Systematic Review

Czerwinski-Alley,

Chithiramohan,

Subramaniam

et al. 2024

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“…As Cheng and Matthews (2018) expressed, despite the capacity to set up structure and meaning links is a major initial phase in dealing with a specific word, the multidimensional idea of word knowledge discovers that setting up this connection is simply part of the challenge faced by L2 students. At this point, in literature we can come across large number of studies dealing with incidental vocabulary acquisition, reading aspect on teaching vocabulary structures and glosses using (Chen & Truscott, 2010;Grabe & Stroller, 2001;Gui, 2015;Saz, Lin & Eskenazi, 2015;Tanaka, 2017;Van Zeeland & Schmitt, 2013). Most of the studies on vocabulary teaching have emphasized acquisition of new vocabulary items from reading.…”

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Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce Öğrenen Türk Öğrencilerin İlgi Alanına Dayalı Okuma ile Sözlüksel Bilgilerinin Geliştirilmesi

Akbulut

2020

Dil Eğitimi Ve Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Vocabulary acquisition in terms of lexical knowledge is one of the basic elements of second language acquisition. Interesting reading studies presented in the classroom positively affects the learners' acquisition of new words. In this context, this study aims to demonstrate that Turkish EFL learners have a positive effect on the vocabulary knowledge by the help of topic interest-based reading passages. This study carried out experimentally in the context of pre-test and post-test was conducted with 52 Turkish EFL learners who were divided into two groups as experimental and control. While the experimental group was exposed to reading components for 12 weeks, the control group was trained with traditional reading passages. According to the results, vocabulary knowledge of the students exposed to topic interest-based reading passages increased significantly when they were compared to the control group. Consequently, interesting reading activities increase vocabulary knowledge of the students incidentally.

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“…Much has been done on how to enhance the acquisition of vocabulary (Chen and Truscott, 2010;Gui, 2015;Saz et al, 2015;Tanaka, 2017;Zeeland and Schmitt, 2013).…”

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An Experimental Research on the Effects of Types of Glossing on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading

Liu

2017

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Abstract-A large amount of research has been conducted to delve into the means of improving the rate of incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, which includes providing glosses or annotations, increasing the reoccurrence of the target words and taking the advantage of dictionaries. But little has been done on the effects of different types of glossing on incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. The present study has been aimed at finding out whether the three different types of glossing, i.e. glossing in Chinese, glossing in English, and glossing in both Chinese and English, have different effects on enhancing the incidental vocabulary acquisition rate through reading. From the data analysis of the present study, it has been found that in terms of enhancing the depth of vocabulary knowledge in incidental vocabulary learning through reading, glossing in both Chinese and English is the most effective glossing type, whether it be in the immediate retention testing section or the delayed retention testing section. In terms of enhancing the breadth of vocabulary knowledge, glossing in Chinese is the most effective one in the immediate retention of the breadth of word knowledge, and glossing in both Chinese and English is the most effective in the delayed retention of the breadth of word knowledge. On the basis of these findings, implications and suggestions for the arena of foreign language teaching and other related fields have been proposed. Index Terms-type of glossing, incidental vocabulary acquisition, reading; breadth of vocabulary knowledge, depth of vocabulary knowledge

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Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

The Effect of Translation and Cultural Adaptations on Diagnostic Accuracy and Test Performance in Dementia Cognitive Screening Tools: A Systematic Review

The Effect of Translation and Cultural Adaptations on Diagnostic Accuracy and Test Performance in Dementia Cognitive Screening Tools: A Systematic Review

Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce Öğrenen Türk Öğrencilerin İlgi Alanına Dayalı Okuma ile Sözlüksel Bilgilerinin Geliştirilmesi

An Experimental Research on the Effects of Types of Glossing on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading

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