Information-Seeking Behaviour of Translation Students at the University of Silesia during Legal Translation -- An Empirical Investigation

Autor/in	Sycz-Opon, Joanna
Titel	Information-Seeking Behaviour of Translation Students at the University of Silesia during Legal Translation -- An Empirical Investigation
Quelle	In: Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 13 (2019) 2, S.152-176 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sycz-Opon, Joanna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-399X
DOI	10.1080/1750399X.2019.1565076
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Information Seeking; Translation; Student Behavior; Information Sources; User Satisfaction (Information); Graduate Students; Polish; English (Second Language); Preferences; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Informationserschließung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Information source; Informationsquelle; Benutzerfreundlichkeit; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Polnisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Polen
Abstract	This article presents the results of an investigation into information-seeking behaviour of trainee translators, observed during translation of a legal text from English into Polish. The translator's workspace has significantly changed over the last twenty years. Now translators have at their disposal not only traditional printed publications but also a variety of sources available in an electronic form. The study presented in this article aims to discover how this repertoire of available sources is utilized during a specific task -- legal translation. The group under scrutiny are the students of a translation programme at the University of Silesia, Poland. The method of investigation combines observation and think-aloud protocol. The results obtained show, among others, the information most often looked-up in sources, the sources most often consulted, the level of satisfaction with source consultation, the reasons for non-satisfaction, and the problems commonly encountered during the search for information. The article ends with the list of characteristic information-seeking behaviours exhibited by the group in question. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01