A Study on Sight Translation Process Between English and Japanese

Abstract

This is to explore a complex process of sight translation between English and Japanese based on the empirical data. First, the paper reviews the literature of sight translation, in general, and its process research, in particular, in translation studies, and then explains the pilot experiment designed to collect and analyze audiovisual records of students’ sight translation performance. Our findings have revealed that some linear and progressive sight translation strategies are distinctively taken, possibly and perhaps, to overcome syntactic difficulties between English and Japanese, which implies the significance of sight translation for a pedagogical purpose.