Hurtado Albir, Amparo | Thematic Network on Empirical Research in Translation and Cognition

Chair in Translation Studies at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Research group:

PACTE (Proceso de Adquisición de la Competencia Traductora y Evaluación)

Institution:

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Membership

Research interests:

Translator training
Translation as a cognitive activity
Empirical and experimental research in Translation Studies
Textuality and Translation

Selected publications:

Alves, F.; Hurtado Albir, A. ”Cognitive approaches to translation”. Handbook of Translation Studies. Ed. Gambier, Y; van Doorslaer, L. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. 28-35

Alves, F.; Hurtado Albir, A.; Lacruz, I. (eds.) Translation as a Cognitive Activity. Special issue of Translation Spaces 4 (1), 2015

Galán-Mañas, A.; Hurtado Albir, A. ”Blended learning in translator training. Methodology and results of an empiric validation”.The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT) 4/2 (2010): 197-231

Galán-Mañas, A.; Hurtado, A. (2015) “Competence assessment procedures in translator training”. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer. vol. 9 (1).

Hurtado Albir, A. (2005). ”A aquisiçâo da competência tradutória: aspectos teóricos e didáticos”. Em: Pagano, A.; Magalâes, C.; Alves, F …[eds] Competência em traduçâo. Cogniçâo e discurso. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG. 19-57

Hurtado Albir, A. Aprender a traducir del francés al español. Competencias y tareas para la iniciación a la traducción. Madrid /Castellón: Edelsa – Universitat Jaume, 2015

Hurtado Albir, A. “The Acquisition of Translation Competence. Competences, Tasks, and Assessment in Translator Training”. Meta 60/2 (2015): 256–280.

Hurtado Albir, A. ”Compétence en traduction et formation par compétences”. TTR (Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction). La formation en traduction: pédagogie, docimologie, technologies. 21/1. (2008): 17-64

Hurtado Albir, A. ”Competence-based Curriculum Design for Training Translators”. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT). 1/2. (2007): 163-195

Hurtado Albir, A. ”Competence”. Handbook of Translation Studies. Ed. Gambier, Y; van Doorslaer, L. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. 55-59

Hurtado Albir, A.; Alves, F. ”Translation as a cognitive activity”. The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies. Ed. Munday, J. London: Routledge, 2009. 54-73

Hurtado Albir, A.; Alves, F.; Englund Dimitrova, B.; Lacruz, I. “A Retrospective and Prospective View of Translation Research from an Empirical, Experimental, and Cognitive Perspective: the TREC Network”, Translation & Interpreting 7(1): 5-25

Hurtado Albir, Amparo. "La traducción como actividad cognitiva". In A.Hurtado Albir Traducción y Traductología. Introducción a la Traductología. Madrid, Cátedra, 2001/2013 6th ed., 311-408

Kuznik, A.; Hurtado Albir, A. “How to define good professional translators and interpreters: applying the behavioural approach to studying competences in the field of Translation Studies”, ACROSS Languages and Cultures 16/1 (2015): 1-27.

KUZNIK, Anna, HURTADO ALBIR, Amparo y ESPINAL BERENGUER, Anna (2010) “El uso de la encuesta de tipo social en Traductología. Características metodológicas”, MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting 2, 315-344.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo, ed. 2014. Minding Translation, Special Issue 1 of the printed and online translation journal MonTI, published by the Spanish universities of Alicante, Castellón (UJI) & Valencia (Estudis Generals)

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo, ed. 2014. Minding Translation. Special Issue No 1 of Monti, yearly printed and online translation journal of the Spanish Universities of Alicante, Castellón (UJI), and Valencia (Estudis Generals)

Olalla-Soler, C., & Hurtado Albir, A. (2014). "Estudio empírico de la traducción de los culturemas según el grado de adquisición de la competencia traductora. Un estudio exploratorio". Sendebar, 25, 9–38.

PACTE (2000) “Acquiring Translation Competence: Hypotheses and Methodological Problems in a Research Project”, in: Beeby, Allison, Ensinger, Doris. i Presas, Marisa (eds.) Investigating Translation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 99-106.

PACTE (2000). “Acquiring Translation Competence: Hypotheses and Methodological Problems in a Research Project”. In: Beeby, Allison, Ensinger, Doris. & Presas, Marisa (eds.). Investigating Translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 99-106

PACTE (2001). “La Competencia traductora y su adquisición”. Quaderns. Revista de Traducció, 6: 39-45.

PACTE (2002). “Exploratory tests in a study of translation competence”. Conference Interpretation and Translation, 4(2): 41-69

PACTE (2002). “Una investigación empírico-experimental sobre la adquisición de la competencia traductora”. In: Alcina Caudet, Amparo & Gamero Pérez, Silvia (eds.). La traducción científico-técnica y la terminología en la sociedad de la información.

PACTE (2003) “Building a Translation Competence Model”. In: Alves, Fabio (ed.) Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in process oriented research, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 43-66.

PACTE (2005) “Investigating Translation Competence: Conceptual and Methodological Issues”, Meta 50(2): 609-619.

PACTE (2005) “Primeros resultados de un experimento sobre la Competencia Traductora”. In: Actas del II Congreso Internacional de la AIETI (Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación) 'Información y documentación', Madrid: Publicaciones

PACTE (2007) "Une recherche empirique expérimentale sur la compétence de traduction". In: Gouadec, Daniel (ed.) Quelle qualification pour les traducteurs?, Paris: La Maison du Dictionnaire, 95-116.

PACTE (2007) “Zum Wesen der übersetzungskompetenz – Grundlagen für die experimentelle Valiedierung eines Ük-Modells” [Translation competence: main features of the experimental validation of translation competence]. In: Wotjak, Gerd (ed.) Quo vadis Transla

PACTE (2008) “First results of a Translation Competence Experiment: ‘Knowledge of Translation’ and ‘Efficacy of the Translation Process’”. In: Kearns, John (ed.) Translator and Interpreter Training. Issues, Methods and Debates, London: Continuum, 104-126.

PACTE (2009). “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Acdeptability and Decision Making”. Across Languages and Cultures, 10(2): 207-230.

PACTE (2011) “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Translation Project and Dynamic Translation Index”. In: Sharon O’Brien (ed.) Cognitive Explorations of Translation, London and New York: Continuum Studies in Translation, 3

PACTE (2011). “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Translation Problems and Translation Competence”. In: Methods and Strategies of Process Research: Integrative Approaches in Translation Studies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

PACTE (2014) "First Results of PACTE Group's Experimental Research on Translation Competence Acquisition: The Acquisition of Declarative Knowledge of Translation", MonTI. Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación, Special issue 1, 85-115.

PACTE (2015) “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”, Translation Spaces, 4(1): 29-53.

Rodríguez-Inés, P. & Hurtado Albir, A. (2012) “Assessing competence in using electronic corpora in translator training”. In S. Hubscher-Davidson & M. Borodo (eds.) Global Trends in Translator and Interpreter Training: Mediation and Culture. Continuum. 96-

PACTE (2019). Establecimiento de niveles de competencias en traducción. Primeros resultados del proyecto NACT. Onomázein, 43: 1-25

Contact information:

Amparo.Hurtado@uab.cat

Working languages:

Spanish, Catalan, French

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