A process-oriented approach for documenting and gauging intercultural competence in translation. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Angelone, Erik
• Is Part Of: Interpreter and translator trainer. Volume 10:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 304
• Page End: 317
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: Intercultural competence -- cultureme -- process-oriented training -- screen recording -- think-aloud protocols -- problem awareness; Translators -- Training of -- Periodicals; 418.02071
• DOI: 10.1080/1750399X.2016.1236560
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-0417

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article describes and contextualises how intercultural competence in translation can be empirically documented and assessed using a process-oriented dual methodology consisting of juxtaposed screen recording and think-aloud data. A discussion of how Byram's (1997) triadic intercultural communicative competence model of knowledge, skills and attitudes maps onto directly observable translator behaviours is followed by the results of a small-scale pilot study, which exemplify how various facets of intercultural competence are manifest in contexts involving MA-level student translation of German culturemes into US English. Continuing in the spirit of previous behaviour-oriented approaches to empirically document intercultural competence in translation, this article foregrounds process-oriented training as a means by which to glean insight into learner strengths and weaknesses with the objective of fostering growth in this domain, thereby optimising a still largely elusive area within translation pedagogy.