Cet article présente les premiers résultats d’une étude longitudinale appliquée à un échantillon de 46 étudiants de la SSLMIT de Trieste. L’objectif de l’étude est la mise au point d’un test d’aptitude pour les candidats aux cours universitaires d’interprétation de conférence. Le test consiste en un exercice de paraphrase en simultanée. L’analyse linguistique des prestations selon trois niveaux, syntaxique, sémantique et pragmatique, a permis d’établir des corrélations, significatives au point de vue statistique, entre les résultats du test, les notes aux examens et le temps employé par les étudiants pour conclure leur formation en interprétation.
A longitudinal study of correlations between the results of intra-language paraphrasing test results (in Italian) and academic results in interpreting exams in 46 interpreting students at the SSLMIT Trieste. The linguistic analysis of the product of paraphrasing focused on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects with specific categories of possible reformulations of each linguistic chunk in the source text. This was correlated with marks at interpreting exams and with the time required by students to complete their training. The study tentatively identified some good predictors of success. It also appeared that those students who completed their studies faster generally had higher marks, which suggests that the weight of pre-existing skills at the start of training may be larger than the weight of training as such. A serious, sophisticated analysis with potentially important implications, in view of the fact that the test involves linguistic-cognitive skills in one's native language only. If a few strong predictors could be identified, this might result in spectacular gain in the efficiency of selection procedures for conference interpreting programmes.
L'articolo presenta i primi risultati di uno studio longitudinale su un campione di 46 studenti della Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori dell'università di Trieste. L'obiettivo dello studio è la messa a punto di un test attitudinale per i candidati ai corsi universitari di Interpretazione di Conferenza. Il test consiste in un esercizio di parafrasi in simultanea (italiano-italiano). L'analisi linguistica delle prestazioni su tre livelli (sintattico, semantico e pragmatico)ha permesso di stabilire delle correlazioni statisticamente significative fra i risultati al test, i voti di esame e il tempo impiegato dagli studenti per concludere la loro formazione in Interpretazione.
Russo, M., Pippa, S. (2004). “Aptitude to Interpreting: Preliminary Results of a Testing Methodology Based on Paraphrase”. META, 49, 409-432.
“Aptitude to Interpreting: Preliminary Results of a Testing Methodology Based on Paraphrase”
PIPPA, Salvador
2004-01-01
Abstract
A longitudinal study of correlations between the results of intra-language paraphrasing test results (in Italian) and academic results in interpreting exams in 46 interpreting students at the SSLMIT Trieste. The linguistic analysis of the product of paraphrasing focused on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects with specific categories of possible reformulations of each linguistic chunk in the source text. This was correlated with marks at interpreting exams and with the time required by students to complete their training. The study tentatively identified some good predictors of success. It also appeared that those students who completed their studies faster generally had higher marks, which suggests that the weight of pre-existing skills at the start of training may be larger than the weight of training as such. A serious, sophisticated analysis with potentially important implications, in view of the fact that the test involves linguistic-cognitive skills in one's native language only. If a few strong predictors could be identified, this might result in spectacular gain in the efficiency of selection procedures for conference interpreting programmes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
