Designing Software for Easy Translation into Other Languages.

Trollip, Stanley R.; Brown, Gary

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Publication Date: 1987

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Designing Software for Easy Translation into Other Languages.

Trollip, Stanley R.; Brown, Gary

Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, v14 n3 p119-23 Sum 1987

Discusses ways of designing software to minimize the problems associated with translating the users interface from English into a foreign language. The Examiner, a test development and delivery system that was translated from English into Dutch, is used as an example, and both its design and its implementation are described. (LRW)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Courseware, Dutch, English, Program Implementation, Second Languages, Test Construction, Translation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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