4-STEP: A Back-Translation-Based Approach to Adapting Experimental Texts

• In Event: 52.085 - Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: 52.085-1 - Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts

Abstract

This proposal aims to discuss the challenges educational researchers in the field of learning and instruction face when adapting experimental texts from one language to another and suggests a back-translation based 4 – STEP (Specify, Translate, Explore, Pilot) approach to overcome those challenges. In order to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed 4-STEP-approach, we conducted an empirical study in which each of the four steps was applied and evaluated with respect to adapting three English expository texts from a US-American study to the German language in order to make those texts available for the cross-cultural replication of empirical findings on the effects of headlines on learning from expository texts.

Authors

• Marie Lippmann, Dresden University of Technology

• Susanne Narciss, Technische Universitaet Dresden

• Hermann J. Koerndle, Technical University of Dresden

• Neil H. Schwartz, California State University - Chico