El grupo de discusión como técnica de investigación en la formación de traductoresdos casos de su aplicabilidad
- Huertas Barros, Elsa
- Vigier-Moreno, Francisco Javier
ISSN: 1989-5097
Year of publication: 2010
Issue: 2
Pages: 181-196
Type: Article
More publications in: Entreculturas: revista de traducción y comunicación intercultural
Abstract
The qualitative research technique known as focus or discussion group is especially adequate for gathering information on the opinions, beliefs, perceptions, interests and attitudes of a group of individuals involved in a given object of study. In this article, we firstly focus on the main methodological issues which all studies based on focus groups must follow, depicting both characteristics and design phases. In the following, we describe two practical cases which have successfully applied focus groups for obtaining valuable data on two different objects of study dealing with translator training assessment. Thus we reveal the suitability and validity of this technique in this type of research projects.