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Post-editing Performance of English-Major Undergraduates in China: A Case Study of C-E Translation with Pedagogical Reflections

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Computer Science and Education (ICCSE 2022)

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Nowadays, post-editors are in great demand in China. Therefore, this research aims to study the post-editing performance of English-major undergraduates from NingboTech University. The results indicate that: Overall, the post-editing ability of English-major undergraduates is still not sufficient for professional post-editing tasks; Their post-editing performance is related to the type of texts, and they have better performance in post-editing informative texts, while they are relatively weaker in the post-editing of expressive and vocative texts; Their post-editing quality is related to their dependence on machine translation, and the group with higher post-editing quality has a relatively lower average dependence on machine translation, but no proportional correlation is found between the two; The errors in students’ post-editing versions can be mainly classified into language competence-related errors and translation competence-related errors. Based on the results, several pedagogical implications for post-editing teaching in the future are discussed.

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Yu, Z., Lu, Y. (2023). Post-editing Performance of English-Major Undergraduates in China: A Case Study of C-E Translation with Pedagogical Reflections. In: Hong, W., Weng, Y. (eds) Computer Science and Education. ICCSE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1812. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2446-2_37

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