Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

Design of the experiment

The experiment design draws primarily on House’s Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) and related text analysis model (1977) (1997), and on Hatim’s multi-stage curriculum translation design (2001: 182) which consists of three stages of an increasing degree of difficulty commensurate with an increasing degree of text evaluativeness. The lessons in the experiment are structured according to the successive steps in House’s model and following Hatim’s multi-stage curriculum. For every stage, pre- test assignments are given followed by interviews and lecture-based seminars on the particular discursive point in a given pre-test: register, text types, genre and discourse. Each lecture is then followed by a post-test and a second interview.

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