Translation studies: Translator training vs employers’ expectations

Machine Translation vs. Translator Aids: A False Dichotomy

Advances in Computers The past 30 years have been a period of rapid development for computers and their uses. In computer hardware, we have seen a progression from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits to microprocessors. In computer uses, we have seen an expansion beyond military and business applications that includes computeraided design and manufacturing, bibliographic data ret...

The Feasibility and Applicability of Grounded Theory Methodology in Translation Studies: Developing Translator Competence

The development of sociological approach to the study of translation makes it possible for the researchers to adopt different methodology to develop new theoretical formulations and concepts. These formulations are arrived at through the interaction with those being studied through the interpretation of real social world and meanings of the participants involved in the translation/social event....

Accounting Employers’ Expectations - The Ideal Accounting Graduates

This research examined what accounting employers are seeking in their ‘ideal’ accounting graduate and sought to provide clarification on the ‘expectation gap’ between what accounting employers require in their graduates, and the skills these graduates are exhibiting. Adopting a qualitative research method, this research paper draws on semi-structured interviews conducted face-to-face with parti...

Translation Technology and the Translator

Technology-Enhanced Translator Training

The aim of the paper is to present an Open Source Learning Management System for creating courses in translation theory and practice. Some of its most important characteristics are: • Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or social format • Flexible array of course activities Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments • Full user logging and tracking activi...