Open AccessWiki as a Tool in Teaching Translation: An Online Peer-Assessment Model of Evaluation
Author(s) -
Gholam-Reza Parvizi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
world journal of english language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0711
pISSN - 1925-0703
DOI - 10.5430/wjel.v6n4p16
Subject(s) - computer science , flexibility (engineering) , asynchronous communication , test (biology) , world wide web , multimedia , human–computer interaction , computer network , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
The complexities of the real professional world the trainee translators are to enter requires the utilization of the largescale instruction, flexibility and highly facilitated and interactive learning that online learning and its associatedfacilities put at our disposal within an instructional design. This paper is an attempt to investigate the effect ofincorporating wiki (an asynchronous text-based online collaborative tool) in a web-based social constructivistspecialized translator training workshop on trainee translators’ performance in comparison with conventional contactclassrooms applying the same instructional framework. An experimental research methodology was utilized toanswer the research question and test the hypothesis. The results revealed that using such a collaborative tool as wikiin the translator training workshop had improved the performance of future translators as a consequence of moredeveloped translation and translator competences when compared with the conventional contact classroom.