Dr. Andrea Hunziker Heeb

Personal profile

Management role

Head, Operational manager of the Translation Studies research area

Position at the ZHAW

Research associate and postdoctoral researcher in Translation Studies
Equal Opportunities Officer. Mail to: diversity.linguistik@zhaw.ch

Expertise and research interests

Translation process research, translation and cognition, translation into the L2, directionality in translation, ergonomics of translation, professional translation

Educational background

2019: PhD, University of Hildesheim. Thesis title: "Effects of directionality on professional translators’ processes, products and effort"
2009: Master of Arts in Translation, University of Exeter
1990: Diploma in Translation, Dolmetscherschule Zürich

Professional milestones

for my Career Story in German please go to the blog Language Matters at blog.zhaw.ch/languagematters/2019/03/21/mit-gut-gefuelltem-rucksack-in-die-forschung/

Membership of networks

• Vereinigung für Angewandte Linguistik in der Schweiz (Vals-Asla)
• European Society for Translation Studies (EST)
• Thematic network on empirical and experimental research in translation (TREC)
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik e.V. (GAL)

Projects

• Schulkommunikation mit fremdsprachigen Erziehungsberechtigten / Team member / Project ongoing
• Zürcher Zulassungskurs: Übersetzen für Behörden und Gerichte / Team member / Project ongoing
• Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT) / Team member / Project completed
• Cognitive and Physical Ergonomics of Translation / Team member / Project completed
• Capturing Translation Processes (CTP) / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Lehr, Caroline; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2021.

  Stress, cognitive, emotional and ergonomic demands in interpreting and translation.

  Cognitive Linguistic Studies.

  8(2), pp. 404-439.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00084.gie

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Andermatt, Katrin; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline,

  2020.

  Cognitive load in processing ELF : translators, interpreters, and other multilinguals.

  Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.

  9(2), pp. 217-238.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2020-2039

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Boos, Michael; Kobi, Matthias; Jäncke, Lutz; Elmer, Stefan,

  2020.

  Cognitive load in relation to non-standard language input.

  Translation, Cognition & Behavior.

  3(2), pp. 263-286.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00044.alb

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Massey, Gary; Meidert, Ursula; Neumann, Silke; Becker, Heidrun Karin,

  2016.

  An international survey of the ergonomics of professional translation.

  ILCEA.

  2016(27), pp. 1-27.

  Available from: http://ilcea.revues.org/4004

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2016.

  Professional translators’ self-concepts and directionality : indications from translation process research.

  The Journal of Specialised Translation.

  2016(25), pp. 74-88.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2049

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2020.

  Effects of directionality on professional translators’ processes, products and effort.

  Hildesheim:

  Universitätsverlag Hildesheim.

  Fach – Sprache – Kommunikation ; 2.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18442/136

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2021.

  Situated translators : cognitive load and the role of emotions

  .

  In:

  Muñoz Martin, Ricardo; Sun, Sanjun; Li, Defeng, eds.,

  Advances in Cognitive Translation Studies.

  Singapore:

  Springer.

  pp. 47-65.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2070-6_3

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Jud, Peter; Angelone, Erik,

  2017.

  Insights from translation process research in the workplace

  .

  In:

  Perrin, Daniel; Kleinberger, Ulla, eds.,

  Doing applied linguistics : enabling transdisciplinary communication.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 116-123.

  De Gruyter Collection ; 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496604-014

• Brändli, Barbara; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2017.

  Wie erreicht man mehr Praxisnähe in der Übersetzerausbildung?

  .

  In:

  Perrin, Daniel; Kleinberger, Ulla, eds.,

  Doing applied linguistics : enabling transdisciplinary communication.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 52-59.

  De Gruyter Collection ; 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496604-007

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2016.

  Investigating the ergonomics of the technologized translation workplace

  .

  In:

  Muñoz Martín, Ricardo, ed.,

  Reembedding translation process research.

  Amsterdam:

  John Benjamins.

  pp. 69-88.

  Benjamins translation library ; 128.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.128

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2022.

  Cognitive load and mental effort : is there a difference and does this difference matter for task performance in T&I? [paper].

  In:

  1st BTS Symposium on Cognitive Research in Translation and Interpreting. A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 June 2022.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2022.

  Non-native source texts : a stress factor for students of translation and interpreting? [paper].

  In:

  10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  Processing ELF : how do language professionals reflect on it? [paper].

  In:

  International conference on translation, interpreting and cognition : book of abstracts.

  3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.

  Università di Bologna.

  pp. 72.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2016.

  Professional business translation into L2 : insights from translation process research [poster].

  In:

  CIUTI Forum 2016, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-15 January 2016.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2016.

  Research into professional L2 translation : triangulation of process and product data [poster].

  In:

  Translation Process Research: Workshop 5, Graz, Austria, 1-3 December 2016.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2015.

  Does professional translation into L2 involve more effort than into L1? [poster].

  In:

  Translation Process Research: Workshop 4, Las Palmas, Spain, 15-17 January 2015.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2012.

  The problem-solving processes of experienced and non-experienced translators [paper].

  In:

  Language learning and language use - applied linguistics approaches. Papers selected from the Junior Research Meeting.

  3rd Junior Research Meeting for Applied Linguistics, Essen, Germany, 23-25 March 2011.

  Duisburg:

  UVRR.

  pp. 177-186.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Schaub-Torsello, Romina; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2015.

  Ergonomie am Übersetzerarbeitsplatz.

  DÜV-Bulletin.

  2015(2), pp. 15-18.

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2015.

  Investigating the ergonomics of the technologized translation workplace [paper].

  In:

  Translation Process Research: Workshop 4, Las Palmas, Spain, 15-17 January 2015.

  Gran Canaria:

  Las Palmas.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Summers, Elana,

  2021.

  Effects of co-teaching translation into the L2 on learner empowerment.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 11.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2019.

  Professional translators’ cognitive effort and product quality in relation to directionality.

  In:

  L2 Translation: Getting Out of the Grey Zone, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 20-21 September 2019.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2019.

  Cognitive load in translation : the role of emotions.

  In:

  Translation Process Research: Workshop 6, Murcia, Spain, 21-23 January 2019.

• Massey, Gary; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2019.

  Educating for ergonomics : building translators’ awareness in and beyond the curriculum.

  In:

  Book of abstracts : EST congress 2019.

  9th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST 2019), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 September 2019.

  Stellenbosch University.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Valtchuk, Oleksandra,

  2019.

  Eine kognitive Sichtweise aufs Übersetzen und Dolmetschen.

  In:

  ASTTI-Regionaltreffen, Zürich, 12. September 2019.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2018.

  "Ich schreib einfach mal" : übers Schreiben beim professionellen Übersetzen in die Zweitsprache.

  In:

  2. Forschungstagung Fachkommunikation – die wissenschaftliche Sicht, Hildesheim, 23. März 2018.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2015.

  Language processing in professional L2 translation : indications from research behaviour.

  In:

  PLM2015 - 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, 17-19 September 2015.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2014.

  Ist Übersetzen in die Zweitsprache so ganz anders als Übersetzen in die Erstsprache?.

  In:

  Translata II: «Translationswissenschaft und Translationspraxis», Innsbruck, Österreich, 30. Oktober - 1. November 2014.

• Massey, Gary; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2013.

  Defining phases of the translation process : revision as a case in point.

  In:

  2. Sektionentagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik e.V., Aachen, 19.-20. September 2013.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2013.

  Professional translators’ self-concepts and translation direction : indications from translation process research.

  In:

  7th EST Congress, Germersheim, Germany, 29 August - 1 September 2013.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2013.

  Research ethics in empirical and experimental translation research : considerations from a PhD study.

  In:

  TREC Seminar on Empirical and Experimental Research in Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2-3 July 2013.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Meyer, Annina,

  2013.

  The importance of cognitive and physical ergonomics at translators’ workplaces.

  In:

  TREC Seminar on Empirical and Experimental Research in Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2-3 July 2013.

• Massey, Gary; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2012.

  Considering the process in translation training.

  In:

  Translation Conference: «Those Who Can, Teach», Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 10 November 2012.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2011.

  A window onto the translator’s mind : how process research helps shed light on problem awareness.

  In:

  3rd Junior Research Meeting for Applied Linguistics, Essen, Germany, 23-25 March 2011.

• Massey, Gary; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2011.

  Combining products and processes : implications for translator training.

  In:

  Text-Process-Text: Questions in Process Oriented Research on Translation and Interpreting, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-19 November 2011.

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