Applicability of a Warm-Up Technique in Teaching Sight Translation for Novice Translators: A Case Study

Abstract

This study investigates the warm-up technique applied in teaching sight translation(SiT) through which the confidence of novice translators is underpinned as they startlearning how to sight translate. This technique consists of three rungs adopted fromHaddad''s Model for teaching interpreting, through which the student translators willimprove their translation skills by mastering the three stages respectively. To applysuch techniques, student translators'' performance is improved remarkably byenhancing their self-confidence to manage the translation task successfully andovercoming the faltering on the first phase of the translation task. The students ofsecond year / Department of Translation / College of Arts / University of Tikrit (2017-2018) have been used as samples in this study to assess their performance asthey sight translate two selected journalistic texts by using a statistical T-test to elicitthe variances of their performance. The pre-test was conducted at the beginning ofthe course, then this technique followed in teaching sight translation. Finally, a post-test was conducted to assess the progress of their performance.