1. Write a composition in English on the topic you discarded for writing test 1 or 2. Alternatively, you can use your composition for writing test 1 or 2. Avoid using any extra aids.
2. Look for 2 or 3 machine translation systems (e.g. Google Translate, DeepL and/or Microsoft Translator) and translate your composition into Spanish.
3. Evaluate if the Spanish text makes sense and make a list of errors, classifying them into categories (and subcategories, if possible), e.g.:
-Focus on form vs meaning, i.e. fluency or well-formedness of the target text (e.g. errors in grammatical agreement, word order, collocation, punctuation, etc.) vs adequacy if the meaning of the target text is not consistent with that of the source text (including cultural references or register).
-Word order errors (incorrect word order at phrase or word level) / mistranslations (incorrectly translated word, wrong gender, number, or case) / omissions (words from the source text have been omitted from the target text) / additions (words not in the source text have been added in the target text.
4. Try to fix problems in Spanish text following the post-editing guidelines.
5. Translate the post-edited text in Spanish back into English using the same MT systems and compare this backtranslation with the first version in English to identify your own mistakes.
6. Pre-edit your English texts correcting your own errors and following the pre-editing guidelines.
7. Translate the pre-edited English texts into Spanish again using the same MT systems.
8. Compare:
-The initial source text in English and the pre-edited source text in English.
-The initial target text in Spanish and the post-edited target text in Spanish.
9. Reflect on the whole process and implications (including practical and ethical considerations) and discuss orally or write a report.
