Results of PACTE’s Experimental Research on the Acquisition of Translation Competence: the Acquisition of Declarative and Procedural Knowledge in Translation. The Dynamic Translation Index

Beeby, Allison; Castillo, L.; Fox, Olivia; Galán Mañas, A.; Hurtado Albir, Amparo; Kuznik, Anna; Massana, Gisela; Neunzig, Wilhelm; Olalla, Ch.; Rodríguez Inés, Patricia; Romero, Lupe

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Article published In: Translation as a cognitive activity:
Edited by Fabio Alves, Amparo Hurtado Albir and Isabel Lacruz
[Translation Spaces 4:1] 2015
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Results of PACTE’s Experimental Research on the Acquisition of Translation Competence

the Acquisition of Declarative and Procedural Knowledge in Translation. The Dynamic Translation Index

Patricia Rodríguez Inés

Lupe Romero

Published online: 22 October 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.4.1.02bee

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