Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates

by Kearns, John

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Full title :Translator and Interpreter Training : Issues, Methods and Debates

Summary

This title presents an in-depth study by a number of international contributors on the issues surrounding the increasing professionalization of the language-media sector, and its demands for ever more highly trained employees with broader skills repertoires. As a research area, education in the fields of translation and interpreting has received growing attention in recent years, with the increasing professionalization of the language-mediation sector demanding ever more highly trained employees with broader repertoires. This trend is evidenced in the present collection, which addresses issues in pedagogy in a variety of translation and interpreting domains. A global range of contributors discuss teaching, evaluation, professionalization and competence as they apply to a range of educational and linguistic situations."Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates" presents an in-depth consideration of the issues involved in this area of translation and interpreting studies, and will be of interest to all students and academics working and researching in the field. Published in association with the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), "Continuum Studies in Translation" aims to present a series of books focused around central issues in translation and interpreting. Using case studies drawn from a wide range of different countries and languages, each book presents a comprehensive examination of current areas of research within translation studies written by academics at the forefront of the field. The thought-provoking books in this series are aimed at advanced students and researchers of translation studies

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008

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Description:xiv, 223 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780826498069, 082649806X, 9780826498052, 0826498051
oclc:ocn465518563
Dewey Decimal:418.02071

Introduction; 1. Professionalization and Intervention, Candace Seguinot, (Yor University, USA); 2. Teaching Interpreting and Interpreting Teaching: A Conference Interpreter's Overview on Second Language Acquisition, Alessandro Zannirato (John Hopkins University, USA); 3. Training Editors in Universities: Considerations, Challenges and Strategies, Haidee Kruger (North-West Universit USA); 4. Mobility Programmes as a Learning Experience for Translation Student Development and Assessment of Specific Translations and Transferable Generic Compentences in Study Abroad Contexts, Dorothy Kelly (University of Granada, Spain); 5. Systematic Assessment of Translator Competence: In Search of Achilles' Heel, Catherine Way (University of Granada, Spain); 6. First Results of a Translation Competence Experiment: 'Knowledge of Translation' and 'Efficacy of the Translation Process', PACTE Group; 7. SLIP -- A Toll of the Trade Married to an Educational Space: Making BSL Dictionaries, Christine W.L Wilson (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) and Rita McDade (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland); 8. Fan Translation Networks: An Accidental Translator Training Environment, Minako O'Hagan (Dublin City Univers…