Towards Establishing a New Paradigm to Enhance Students’ Translational Competencies through Telecollaboration

Driss  Mohamed Amine

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i2.1809

Authors

Driss Mohamed Amine University Mustapha Stambouli-Mascara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i2.1809

Keywords:

Competence, Computer conferencing, Crowdsourcing, Telecollaboration, Translation, Translational competence

Abstract

Scholars have proposed various typologies of crowdsourcing that may solve the problems of translation and the wisdom or creativity of the crowd. In this regard, the term ‘crowd’ is jointly used with other terms to categorize the special task, the crowd is characterized with i.e. students of translation in this case such as crowdcontent, crowdopinion and crowdcasting. In a similar vein, the whole learning process of translation meets the didactic criteria as it has a clearly defined learner, a definitely stated goal, an evidently recognized crowdsourcer or initiator of the crowdsourcing activity (being the teacher here), and an assuredly some type of recompense for the participants. This paper attempts to answer many questions such as: what is telecollaboration in translation? To which extent may it constitute an added value in corroborating students’ translation competencies? How does the translational crowdsourcing via computer conferencing operate? And what are the subtleties of such a practice?

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