Research into linguistic interference

6.1.  Interference Identification Task 
This kind of analysis will reveal to which extent the students are sensitive to 
interference. Although we ask them directly about their views of this 
phenomenon in the questionnaires, the interference identification task will 
reveal their actual attitude towards it. For that reason, they were asked to 
complete the interference identification task first (to see what is the reality), and 
the questionnaires second (which will reveal their personal conviction about this 
phenomenon). Moreover, we are interested in whether the students will agree 
on most of the interferences or whether their perceptions will be different.  
For this task, a translation from the corpus which contained a fairly high 
amount of interference had been chosen. Both, the original and the target text, 
were distributed among students of Master‟s Degree in translation (and 
teachers of translation) and the subjects were supposed to accomplish this task 
at home. They were not asked to classify the individual occurrences according 

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to the types as we did in the analysis. They were asked just to tag the 
expressions in which they thought any type of interference occurred. Results 
from 22 students and 4 teachers have been obtained. As far as the method of 
evaluating the results is concerned, all of the marked segments were put into a 
table (included on the CD) and we counted the number of people who 
highlighted the given expressions. Then, the values were converted into 
percentage (100% corresponds to all of the 22 students) and a scale reflecting 
consensus of the students was created
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