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Identifying In-Demand Qualifications and Competences for Translation Curriculum Renewal: A Content Analysis of Translation Job Ads
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Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Content analysis of job ads has been used to inform curriculum renewal in many disciplines, but it is not commonplace in Translation Studies. This paper aims to identify qualifications and competences in the translation market through content analysis of translation job ads in China. Four hundred and twenty-nine job ads were collected from the two…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Translation, Interpersonal Competence, Marketing
Student Satisfaction with a Micro-Learning Approach in Distance Translation and Interpreting Training: An Empirical Investigation
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Díaz-Millón, Mar; Rivera-Trigueros, Irene; Gutiérrez-Artacho, Juncal – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The new contexts in higher education, shifting from face-to-face to online scenarios, encourage the application of disruptive methodologies adapted to distance learning. Translation and interpreting (T&I) programmes ideally foster the acquisition of competencies such as self-study, which graduates need to enter a largely freelance and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Translation, Professional Education
Teaching Beliefs and Learning Beliefs in Translator and Interpreter Education: An Exploratory Case Study
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Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Since 2000, translator and interpreter trainers have been arguing against the use of a transmissionist approach and for the use of a transformationist approach. Such a change in instructional approach is rooted in a shift in trainers' beliefs from behaviourism to social constructivism/situated learning. Teachers' beliefs on the nature of knowledge…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Translation, Educational Change, Constructivism (Learning)
Translator Education as a Collaborative Quest for Insights into the Re-Positioning of the Human Translator (Educator) in the Age of Machine Translation: the Results of a Learning Experiment
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Öner Bulut, Senem; Alimen, Nilüfer – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Motivated by the urgent need to investigate the possibilities for re-positioning the human translator and his/her educator in the machine translation (MT) age, this article explores the dynamics of the human-machine dance in the translation classroom. The article discusses the results of a collaborative learning experiment which was conducted in…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Self Efficacy, Second Languages