@article{ART003383721},
author={Kim YoungIn},
title={Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes},
journal={The Journal of Translation Studies},
issn={1229-795X},
year={2026},
volume={27},
number={3},
pages={335-368},
doi={10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim YoungIn
TI - Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes
JO - The Journal of Translation Studies
PY - 2026
VL - 27
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Association for Translation Studies
SP - 335
EP - 368
SN - 1229-795X
AB - This study examines undergraduate learners’ translation decision-making and evaluative judgement in an AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation class, focusing on the alignment between their articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. The dataset consists of 80 submissions from 16 learners in response to five Chinese news texts. Each submission included an AI prompt, an AI-generated draft, a post-edited text, and a written rationale for the revisions. The analysis combined occurrence-based coding with qualitative examination of individual cases. Learners most frequently identified translationese, unnatural Korean expressions, and inappropriate journalistic style. Lexical replacement, sentence restructuring, and stylistic adjustment occurred in all 80 submissions. Comparison between the written rationales and post-edited texts revealed five patterns: direct correspondence, incomplete implementation of stated decisions, shifts in meaning representation, deliberate retention of AI expressions, and added information, explanations, or interpretive relations. Direct correspondence occurred in all 80 submissions, while 58 (72.5%) also showed shifts in meaning representation. A supplementary comparison of the source and final post-edited texts identified at least 24 discrepancies in meaning or information in 18 submissions (22.5%) that were not mentioned in the rationales. These findings suggest that post-editing instruction should distinguish problem identification, the implementation of revision or retention decisions, and final-text re-evaluation, while directing learners’ attention to what their revisions preserve, alter, or introduce in relation to the source text.
KW - AI translation;post-editing;Chinese-to-Korean translation;translation decision-making;evaluative judgement
DO - 10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
ER -
Kim YoungIn. (2026). Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. The Journal of Translation Studies, 27(3), 335-368.
Kim YoungIn. 2026, "Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes", The Journal of Translation Studies, vol.27, no.3 pp.335-368. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn "Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes" The Journal of Translation Studies 27.3 pp.335-368 (2026) : 335.
Kim YoungIn. Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. 2026; 27(3), 335-368. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn. "Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes" The Journal of Translation Studies 27, no.3 (2026) : 335-368.doi: 10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn. Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. The Journal of Translation Studies, 27(3), 335-368. doi: 10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn. Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. The Journal of Translation Studies. 2026; 27(3) 335-368. doi: 10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn. Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes. 2026; 27(3), 335-368. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
Kim YoungIn. "Undergraduate learners’ decision-making and evaluative judgement in AI-assisted Chinese-to-Korean translation: Alignment between articulated judgements and post-edited outcomes" The Journal of Translation Studies 27, no.3 (2026) : 335-368.doi: 10.15749/jts.2026.27.3.011
