Future (and not-so-future) trends in the teaching of translation technology
Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traduccióPublished 23 December 2013Open access
Frank Austermuehl
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Aquest article proposa una aproximacio a l’ensenyament de les tecnologies de the traduccio que no esta centrada en la presentacio als estudiants de mes eines TAO, sino en el treball al voltant de dos conjunts de metacompetencies.
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This paper proposes an approach to teaching translation technology that focus less on exposing students to ever more types of CAT tools than on two sets of meta-competences—revising skills and documentary research skills—and on the technologies that allow students to optimize these skills.
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