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Huertas Barros, Elsa; Vine, Juliet – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Assessment underpins all forms of translator training and is an essential element of any teaching and learning process. By looking at university assessment practices, we can gain an insight into current understandings about the nature of translation practice and what issues are foregrounded in translator education. This paper presents the findings…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Translation
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Berthaud, Sarah; Mason, Sarah – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
The translation industry, as well as Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and translator training, have undergone numerous changes in the last two decades. These changes might explain why there is often a gap between translator training and professional translation practice. In this paper, we argue that situated learning through the development of…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Language Processing, Communities of Practice
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Hagemann, Susanne – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Directionality has seldom been discussed with regard to the profiles of translation teachers. At German universities, the target language is usually the teacher's A language. By contrast, in countries whose languages are less widely spoken, it is more common for teachers to work into their B language along with their students. However, A-B…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Translation, Profiles
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Muñoz-Miquel, Ana – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
This paper presents the results of an empirical descriptive and contrastive study designed to assess how closely postgraduate translation programmes fit the reality of professional practice. Focusing on medical translation, the case study analyses the convergences and divergences between the competences that professional medical translators deploy…
Descriptors: Translation, Program Evaluation, Education Work Relationship, Medicine
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Carsten, Svetlana; Ciobanu, Drago?; Mankauskiene, Dalia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
Measuring the quality of information and communication technology (ICT) tools and their impact on learning outcomes is not an easy task. Carol Chapelle, the leading authority on the evaluation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tools, wrote in 2008: 'Evaluation of innovation is perhaps the most significant challenge teachers and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Translation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Innovation