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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
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Melonçon, Lisa; Rosselot-Merritt, Jeremy; St. Amant, Kirk – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2020
Pedagogical and programmatic research remains important in technical and professional communication. For such approaches to be effective, meaningful, and successful, they must represent effective scholarship that can be used within and address the needs of the greater field. The authors performed a metasynthesis of pedagogical and programmatic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communication Skills, Professional Education, Periodicals
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Rossella Latorraca – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
In the growing market of the translation industry, where 90% of the global output consists of specialised translation, the acquisition of familiarity with different specialised genres is critical for translation trainees to confidently prepare for their future professional challenges. Not only do professionals report dealing with a high diversity…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Self Efficacy, Second Languages
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Cosgrove, Thomas; O'Reilly, John – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Engineering education is appropriately concerned with technical problem solving. However, the philosophical tradition has periodically asserted that technical rationality is but one mode of rationality. Informed by experience in both design practice and engineering education the authors agree with Donald Schön that professional artistry is an…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Creativity
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Mo Li; Shulin Yu; Pauline Mak; Chunhong Liu – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Informed by the effective feedback model, the study explored the efficacy of peer assessment (PA) regarding feedback content, strategy, and uptake along with their intertwined relationships in translator education. Multiple sources of data, including students' translation drafts and their revised work, audio recordings of PA presentations and…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Translation
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Thelin, Katina – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2020
This article considers the conditions, possibilities, and challenges of creating what is referred to here as a 'reflective space' within a higher education course for principals. It is informed by the findings of a qualitative research inquiry conducted in the interests of enhancing the principals' learning and professional praxis and the…
Descriptors: Reflection, Administrator Education, Principals, Foreign Countries
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Montero-Martínez, Silvia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
To respond to the needs of the language industry, further specialisation in terminology at Master's level is needed to equip students with the necessary skills to work as corporate and institutional terminologists. For this purpose, curricular design should envisage the general and specific competences identified by practising terminologists in…
Descriptors: Translation, Masters Programs, Curriculum Design, Competency Based Education
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Olivo, Marisa; Smith, Reid Jewett – New Educator, 2021
This article examines how the MAT [Master of Arts in Teaching] program in Earth Science at the American Museum of Natural History was conceptualized and enacted within its institutional context. We argue that the program was completely consistent with the museum's public and democratic institutional logic, as reflected in funding, staffing,…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Earth Science, Museums, Science Teachers
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Mazur, Iwona; Chmiel, Agnieszka – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
Audio description (AD) is a mode of audiovisual transfer which involves making audiovisual content and live performances accessible to people with sight loss. With the growing demand for this audiovisual translation (AVT) practice, a need has arisen to train professionals in the area. As a result, AD courses have sprung up, both in the form of…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Teaching Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Visual Impairments
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Hallmon, Augustus W.; Myllykangas, Susan A.; Nagata, Shinichi – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
Myllykangas postulated that students studying various careers within the parks and recreation profession might prefer a certain learning style, which is, often the case, different from the teaching style used by the faculty. In order to address learning styles of students, it is essential to be able to adapt to the learning styles of each student…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Parks, Recreation, Leisure Time
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Pavez, Pedro – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
As learning and teaching theory experts, university educators are constantly asked to review and reflect on their methodologies and to co-generate them with all members of the educational community. Teachers understand that students constantly shape the object of study, and thus embrace differences among individuals. In this context, a dialogic…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Spanish
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Zoghlami, Naouel – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In this article, Naouel Zoghlami draws on needs analysis as a fundamental approach to inform the design of a professional English curriculum at the Cnam, a unique French research institution of higher education dedicated to lifelong learning. While needs analysis is still not widely used in the development of English for specific purposes programs…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Kunschak, Claudia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
An increasingly interconnected world requires people to become versatile communicators in a variety of different settings. Language centers have a critical role to play in this process by offering language and culture training in multiple languages to students, professionals and the wider community alike. They may do so from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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España, Cristina; Soosaar, Reet – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2022
The implementation of the European Union's Erasmus Plus (E+) Program has resulted in the possibility of joint initiatives across-borders led by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), who can bring classroom practice closer to education as a key area for employability and prepare students for work and communication in multicultural and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Student Projects, English (Second Language)
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