Information-seeking behaviour of translation students at the University of Silesia during legal translation-an empirical investigation

• Joanna Sycz Opon ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Silesia

     University of Silesia

     Katowice, Polonia

     
• Localización: The Interpreter and translator trainer, ISSN 1750-399X, Vol. 13, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 152-176
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article presents the results of an investigation into information-seeking behaviour of trainee translators, observed during translation of a legal text from English into Polish. The translator’s workspace has significantly changed over the last twenty years. Now translators have at their disposal not only traditional printed publications but also a variety of sources available in an electronic form. The study presented in this article aims to discover how this repertoire of available sources is utilized during a specific task – legal translation. The group under scrutiny are the students of a translation programme at the University of Silesia, Poland. The method of investigation combines observation and think-aloud protocol. The results obtained show, among others, the information most often looked-up in sources, the sources most often consulted, the level of satisfaction with source consultation, the reasons for non-satisfaction, and the problems commonly encountered during the search for information. The article ends with the list of characteristic information-seeking behaviours exhibited by the group in question.