QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE “HUMAN PHASE” OF TRANSLATION SELF-REVISION: STRADDLING THE ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS

Abstract

This paper focuses on the self-revision phase of the translation process. More specifically, we present a pilot teaching innovation project, entitled REVITRAD and implemented in the specialized translation classroom of the Degree in Translation and Interpreting at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville (Spain), whose objective is both to improve the quality of the translations produced by the students and to encourage their productivity in that phase of the self-revision process in which human intervention is still necessary. After considering the sort of assistance that translation software can provide to the translator and the reviser of translations, we propose a teaching methodology, based on the concept of translation error and its classification, that has been specifically designed to optimize the outcome of the human intervention in the self-revision phase of the translation process. This paper describes the methodological tools used to measure the results obtained from the implementation of the project, analyzes such results, and determines to what extent the objectives pursued have been achieved.

Keywords
self-revision; translation error; quality; productivity