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View article: An eye-tracking study on the cognitive processing, reception, and perception of swearword translation in films
An eye-tracking study on the cognitive processing, reception, and perception of swearword translation in films Open
Technological advances lead to an increasing array of widely accessible online audiovisual (AV) products. However, translating these AV products poses challenges, especially for culturally sensitive content like swearwords. Using eye-track…
View article: A risk-based approach to mitigating the Gen(AI) challenge to assessment integrity
A risk-based approach to mitigating the Gen(AI) challenge to assessment integrity Open
In the evolving landscape of higher education, emerging technologies such as Generative AI (GenAI) present both opportunities and challenges. The rapid increase in access to, and sophistication of, GenAI poses significant challenges for ou…
View article: Interpreting and technologies
Interpreting and technologies Open
This chapter explores the impact of technology on interpreting practice and education, with a specific focus on the cognitive dimension. Setting-oriented technologies, such as those facilitating remote interpreting, have altered the extern…
View article: A corpus-based study on the English-Chinese swearwords produced by amateur (fansubbing) and professional (prosubbing) subtitling
A corpus-based study on the English-Chinese swearwords produced by amateur (fansubbing) and professional (prosubbing) subtitling Open
The translation of culturally-sensitive elements, especially swearwords, poses a unique challenge for audiovisual (AV) products which are increasingly disseminated online to millions of diverse audiences. This study focuses on the converge…
View article: investigation of subtitles as learning support in university education
investigation of subtitles as learning support in university education Open
The literature on the benefits of subtitles has yielded contradictory results largely due to inconsistencies in experimental design and the operationalisation of variables such as language proficiency, subtitle language, and subtitle chara…
View article: An Eye-Movement Analysis of Overt Visual Attention During Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting Modes in a Remotely Interpreted Investigative Interview
An Eye-Movement Analysis of Overt Visual Attention During Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting Modes in a Remotely Interpreted Investigative Interview Open
Remote interpreting via video-link is increasingly being employed in investigative interviews chiefly due to its apparent increased accessibility and efficiency. However, risks of miscommunication have been shown to be magnified in remote …
View article: The ‘hookability’ of multimodal impact captions
The ‘hookability’ of multimodal impact captions Open
The use of captions has grown in recent years in both traditional and new media, particularly in terms of the diversity of style, content, and function. Impact captions have emerged as a popular form of captions for hearing viewers and con…
View article: A Commissioner’s Day: Quantitative approaches to the study of evidence in royal commissions of inquiry
A Commissioner’s Day: Quantitative approaches to the study of evidence in royal commissions of inquiry Open
This article uses statistical data gathered from digitized and indexed journals to quantify the identity, status, purpose, and impact of visitors to a series of Royal Commissions of Inquiry dispatched to the Cape and Mauritius from 1823. T…
View article: Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire
Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire Open
This article tests the value of corpus linguistics in analysing nineteenth-century commissions of inquiry into British colonies. It examines and improves the capacity of a computerised text analysis tool called the Linguistic Inquiry and W…
View article: A self-paced reading (SPR) study of the effects of processing instruction on the L2 processing of active and passive sentences
A self-paced reading (SPR) study of the effects of processing instruction on the L2 processing of active and passive sentences Open
Recent research on the effects of processing instruction (PI) have incorporated online research methods in order to demonstrate that PI has effects on cognitive processing behaviors as well as on accuracy (e.g. Lee & Doherty, 2019a). The p…
View article: The impact of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on visual attention, cognitive load, and comprehension
The impact of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on visual attention, cognitive load, and comprehension Open
With the proliferation and global dissemination of audiovisual products, subtitles have been widely used as a cost-effective tool to minimise language barriers for audiences of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. However, the effe…
View article: Comparing the impact of automatically generated and corrected subtitles on cognitive load and learning in a first- and second-language educational context
Comparing the impact of automatically generated and corrected subtitles on cognitive load and learning in a first- and second-language educational context Open
The addition of subtitles to videos has the potential to benefit students across the globe in a context where online video lectures have become a major channel for learning, particularly because, for many, language poses a barrier to learn…
View article: Translation technology evaluation research
Translation technology evaluation research Open
Central to the successful research, development and application of translation technology is its evaluation. Accordingly, there has been a growing demand to evaluate translation technologies based on the systematic and rigorous application…
View article: The Effects of Implicit Positive and Negative Feedback on Processing Subsequent Linguistic Target Items
The Effects of Implicit Positive and Negative Feedback on Processing Subsequent Linguistic Target Items Open
Corrective feedback has been the subject of 18 meta-analyses (Plonsky & Brown, 2015) that have examined the research on the effects of corrective feedback on learning outcomes, a product-oriented focus. The present study examines the effec…
View article: Conducting experimental research in audiovisual translation (AVT): A position paper
Conducting experimental research in audiovisual translation (AVT): A position paper Open
Experimental studies on AVT have grown incrementally over the past decade. This growing body of research has explored several aspects of AVT reception and production using behavioural measures such as eye tracking, as well as venturing int…
View article: Measuring cognitive load in the presence of educational video: Towards a multimodal methodology
Measuring cognitive load in the presence of educational video: Towards a multimodal methodology Open
The use of video has become well established in education, from traditional courses to blended and online courses. It has grown both in its diversity of applications as well as its content. Such educational video however is not fully acces…
View article: Telop, Affect, and Media Design: A Multimodal Analysis of Japanese TV Programs
Telop, Affect, and Media Design: A Multimodal Analysis of Japanese TV Programs Open
Japanese and other Asian TV producers have been deploying multi-colored, and highly visible, intra-lingual captions on TV programs to enhance their appeal and to influence their viewers’ interpretations. The practice of adding these captio…
View article: Original language subtitles: Their effects on the native and foreign viewer
Original language subtitles: Their effects on the native and foreign viewer Open
This study investigates the impact of same-language subtitles on the immersion into audiovisual narratives as a function of the viewer’s language (native or foreigner). Students from two universities in Australia and one in Spain were assi…
View article: Towards a cognitive audiovisual translatology
Towards a cognitive audiovisual translatology Open
This chapter presents the findings of a study to investigate the impact of subtitles on the processing of audiovisual texts in terms of levels of self-reported engagement with the text. It also presents a methodology for investigating the …
View article: The impact of translation technologies on the process and product of translation
The impact of translation technologies on the process and product of translation Open
Technological advances have led to unprecedented changes in translation as a means of interlingual communication. This article discusses the impact of two major technological developments of contemporary translation: computer-assisted tran…
View article: Translations| The Impact of Translation Technologies on the Process and Product of Translation
Translations| The Impact of Translation Technologies on the Process and Product of Translation Open
Technological advances have led to unprecedented changes in translation as a means of interlingual communication. This article discusses the impact of two major technological developments of contemporary translation: computer-assisted tran…
View article: Validating measurements of cognitive load during video processing by L2 students
Validating measurements of cognitive load during video processing by L2 students Open
for presentation at ALAA2016 conference.