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Translation in Transition: Between cognition, computing and technology
Edited by Arnt Lykke Jakobsen and Bartolomé Mesa-Lao
[Benjamins Translation Library 133] 2017
► pp. 17–53

Chapter 1
Reading for translation

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| University of Leicester
| University of Leicester
| University of Leicester
This chapter describes an eye tracking study which compared eye movements during reading for comprehension with reading for translation. In addition, the number of target words likely to be used for the translation of a single source word was manipulated. Results showed large significant task effect on Total Reading Time, Average Fixation Duration, Fixation Count, Regression Count and Progressive Saccade Amplitude and the manipulation had a 23ms effect on first fixation durations. This is the first eye tracking study which charts the time course of the effect of translation on source text reading in detail. The results are interpreted in terms of co-activation of the two linguistic systems during translation, in line with previous studies which used different methods.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Horizontal and vertical translation
  • 2.A potentially universal phenomenon
  • 3.What eye movements during reading can tell us
  • 4.Controlling variables
  • 5.Self-paced reading and translation
  • 6.Method
  • 6.1Creation of stimuli
    • 6.2Participants
    • 6.3Apparatus
    • 6.4Materials
    • 6.5Procedure
    • 6.6Data analyses
  • 7.Overall task effects
  • 8.Local measures
  • 9.General discussion and final remarks
  • Appendix
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 30 September 2017
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