Testing the influence of CAT-tools on the quality of translations produced by students majoring in translation
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the influence of CAT-tools on the quality of translations of first-year graduate students of translation studies departments of schools of foreign languages. Nowadays professional translation is possible only with the use of special translation software, namely, CAT-tools, an integral part of which is the terminology management module. It is believed that the use of term bases can improve the quality of translation, but the term bases given to the translator still require careful critical attitude because they can potentially contain mistakes which, in turn, can negatively affect the quality of translation. Identifying such influence would allow to adjust the training program for students majoring in translation in terms of the use of modern translation technologies, increasing its effectiveness. That is why the purpose of the study was to establish the presence or absence of the impact of CAT-tools (in terms of the use of term bases) on the efficiency of translators. The experimental study was conducted in the first semester of the 2019/2020 academic year (September). The subjects were 24 first-year graduate students of the Translation Studies Department of the School of Foreign Languages of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, divided into 2 experimental groups (EG-1 and EG-2). Students of EG-1 in the process of translation used terminology base with mistakes, while students of EG-2 relied only on themselves. The stages of the study included three stages: preparatory (formulation of hypotheses, development of the plan of the experiment), basic (practical implementation of the experiment) and final (analysis and interpretation of the experimental data). The obtained results confirmed the hypothesis that the translation of the original text by means of CAT-tools with the use of the term base with mistakenly translated lexical units led to a decrease in the quality of students’ translations.
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