Article published In: COVID-19 and Current Changes in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert
[The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 9:2] 2022
► pp. 162–179
The first courses on localization in Slovakia
Expectations vs. reality
Published online: 4 July 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/jial.00025.kab
https://doi.org/10.1075/jial.00025.kab
Abstract
In 2020 the first two courses on localization were introduced in Slovakia. During their preparatory stages, it was
thought that they would be taught in person. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia had worsened by the end of the
summer of 2020; teaching over both semesters was moved online and the syllabi had to be promptly adjusted to the new situation.
Another change in the syllabi was required in the following academic year as teaching began in a hybrid format.
The presented paper is a case study, and it will deal with the adjustments made to the courses; it will briefly
introduce the first syllabi and then present the changes made after the switch to distance teaching and after the switch to hybrid
teaching. The various parts of the syllabi are accompanied by statements from students that were gathered in an anonymous survey
after each semester to see whether they were satisfied with the course and whether they understood the problems they had been
dealing with. The results of the paper will discuss the changes, their positive and negative impact on the overall syllabi of the
first two localization courses, and improvements and changes.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Translation at Comenius University
- 3.The original syllabi
- 3.1Website localization and its cycle
- 3.2Localization of software and video games
- 4.Methodology
- 5.Localization courses changing in time
- 5.1The 2020/2021 academic year
- 5.2The 2021/2022 academic year
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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