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Yinyin Wu – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
The market demand for retour interpreting, especially into English as a B language, has driven training needs for B language enhancement. Interpreter trainers suggest memorising (semi-)fixed expressions in one's B language to enhance accuracy, fluency, and idiomaticity. These prefabricated multiword units ease processing effort in both language…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Su, Wei – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
This paper examines how interpreting quality is evaluated by peer students in an English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting class. In the study, 18 students received training on how to evaluate interpreting based on three quality components: accuracy, presentation and target language quality. Then, they were asked to evaluate three translation…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Interpretive Skills, English (Second Language), Chinese
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Hirci, Nataša; Pisanski Peterlin, Agnes – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
It has been argued that the growing impact of new technologies on society should be reflected in education in response to the digital generation's extensive dependence on digital tools. This paper focuses on the incorporation of digital technologies into translator training by comparing the benefits and drawbacks of "wikis," a…
Descriptors: Translation, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Comparative Analysis
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Ureel, Jim J. J.; Diels, Ella; Robert, Isabelle S.; Schrijver, Iris – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
As expert intercultural communicators, translators constantly face the challenges of comprehending and producing language that is stylistically appropriate in various communicative contexts. To scale these challenges, they must acquire advanced levels of sociolinguistic competence. Although sociolinguistic competence is considered an essential…
Descriptors: Translation, Sociolinguistics, Undergraduate Students, Indo European Languages