The development of an error typology to assess translation from English into Korean in class
Published online: 24 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.1.03lee
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.1.03lee
One of the urgent issues in translation studies is how to identify a good translation,
which is inevitably related to its assessment. Various approaches have been introduced
to deal with these issues, and while all of them should be considered as important
variables, it would be impossible to use all of them in developing an assessment method,
which can be applied to all types of translation.<p>Under these circumstances,
this paper is designed to show the procedure of the development of an error typology to
assess translations from English into Korean for students in translation programs. To do
this, studies done in translation assessment and error typologies until now have been
presented, and an error typology consisting of four categories: (a) causes of errors,
(b) types of errors; (c) results of errors; (d) significance of errors has been
developed. Since it is an on-going project, the next step will be to apply it to data to
verify its effectiveness.<p>
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