Isabelle S. Robert
List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabelle S. Robert is involved.
2026 Visual attention, perception, and performance of international students in EMI lectures with automatic live intralingual subtitles Translation Spaces: Online-First Articles | Article
This article presents a study that examines how international university students perform in English Medium Instruction (EMI) lectures with live intralingual subtitles, or lectures in which the lecturer’s words are subtitled in real time in the same language as the speaker. It investigates which… read more
2025 The effects of corpus-focused instruction on the development of stylistic translation revision competence in future translators Translation Spaces 14:2, pp. 221–252 | Article
In this paper, we investigate stylistic translation revision competence, more specifically if and how corpus-focused instruction (CFI) improves translation trainees’ ability to detect and correct stylistic inappropriateness in Dutch — English translations of academic texts. Two forms of CFI —… read more
2023 Comparing L2 translation, translation revision, and post-editing competences in translation trainees: An exploratory study into Dutch–French translation Babel 69:1, pp. 99–128 | Article
Translation proper is rarely the sole activity that translators undertake in today’s translation market. Translators regularly function as revisers or post-editors, requiring them to check human or machine translations to make or recommend changes to improve translation quality. Various… read more
2022 Preparing and comparing subtitles for quasi-experimental and experimental research in audiovisual translation studies Methodological Issues in Experimental Research in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Greco, Gian Maria, Anna Jankowska and Agnieszka Szarkowska (eds.), pp. 113–133 | Article
Empirical research on cognitive processing in AVT has been on the rise in recent years. A number of overarching works have recommended more standardised approaches and methodological frameworks to contribute to more streamlined, replicable, reproducible and valid future AVT research. To date,… read more
2014 Investigating the problem-solving strategies of revisers through triangulation: An exploratory study The Development of Professional Competence, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Séverine Hubscher-Davidson (eds.), pp. 88–108 | Article
This article reports on an exploratory follow-up study on the use of problem-solving strategies of professional revisers, and in particular the use of ‘rereading,’ ‘reflection-reformulation,’ and ‘search’ problem-solving strategies. The study focuses on the frequency of these strategies, on the… read more
2013 Translation revision: Does the revision procedure matter? Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010, Way, Catherine, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts and Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk (eds.), pp. 87–102 | Article
Since 2006, European translation agencies wishing to work in accordance with the European standard EN 15038 relating to translation services must incorporate revision into their process. Yet, the standard remains unclear on the way in which the revision must be accomplished. This research therefore… read more