Digital portfolio in the development of documentary competence in university students

• Autores: Cornejo-Sánchez, Jesús Fernando, Limaymanta, Cesar H., Mezarina-Castañeda, Rossana Delia, Gálvez-Nores, Betty Maritza
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad César Vallejo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad César Vallejo
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.ucv.edu.pe:article/301
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.ucv.edu.pe/index.php/eduser/article/view/301
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Competencia documental; Competencia instrumental; Plataforma virtual; Portafolio digital; Recurso multimedia; Digital Portfolio; Documentary competence; Instrumental competence; Multimedia resource; Virtual platform

Translators face numerous challenges for doing their work, not only linguistic but also multimedia-related challenges. For this reason, translation undergraduate students must develop their documentary competence with a digital portfolio. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the effect of using a digital portfolio for developing documentary competence in the translation students from a private university in Lima. This research is quantitative and has a quasi-experimental design. It has been applied to a course of direct translation for two semesters. The sample was 32 students, 16 of them for control group and 16 for experimental group. A test was given before and after using the digital portfolio, so that documentary competence can be measured in its three dimensions: thematic field, terminology and textual genres. Findings suggest that the digital portfolio is effective for developing documentary competence in the experimental translation group. The use of a virtual platform allows students to develop documentary or instrumental competence and to familiarize themselves with the use of different multimedia resources as repository.