ERIC Number: EJ1231403
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Exploring Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Symbiotic Collaboration with Students: An Action Research Project
Haro-Soler, Maria del Mar; Kiraly, Don
Interpreter and Translator Trainer, v13 n3 p255-270 2019
This paper presents a participatory action research project in which teacher-researchers, student-researchers and student-subjects collaborated on a research project in a working-group format to investigate constructs related to the translator's psychological 'self'. The pedagogical approach adopted for managing the working group, based on social constructivist principles and a view of knowledge development as an emergent, collaborative process, was found to have boosted the students' self-efficacy beliefs regarding themselves as researchers, as the results of a focus group analysis revealed. Moreover, through the symbiotic collaboration between teachers and students in the working group, a preliminary two-section questionnaire for measuring students' self-perceptions as translators was validated over the course of the project, thus enhancing the value of this research tool for studying learners' self-efficacy beliefs. A key focus of this chapter will be on a shift in emphasis from 'translator training' and 'training the translator trainer' towards 'translator education' and 'educating the translator educator'.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Constructivism (Learning), Participatory Research, Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Student Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Self Concept, Teacher Education, College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Self Concept Measures, Translation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Psychology, Self Esteem, Questionnaires
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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