Didactic Approaches to Interpreter Training: Contexts, Approaches and Coping Tactics
Following previous discussions on major European and Chinese training models, we find that the AIIC/ESIT model for the training of conference interpreters has been highly influential in the Western world. The European Masters in Conference Interpreting (E
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Interpreter Training in Context European and Chinese Models Reconsidered
Interpreter Training in Context
Jie Liu
Interpreter Training in Context European and Chinese Models Reconsidered
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Jie Liu School of Education Central China Normal University Wuhan, China Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA
ISBN 978-981-15-8593-7 ISBN 978-981-15-8594-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8594-4
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Preface and Acknowledgements
We never think entirely alone: we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present. (Antoine Sertillanges, 1920)
Interpreters play a crucial role in international communication. They help people overcome language and cultural barriers and understand each other better. As a practitioner and instructor of interpreting, I was always intrigued by the mystery of how interpreting as a skill or subject is taught and learned in universities and interpreting schools around the world. Are there any universal laws governing interpreter training? What kind of educational principles and/or pedagogy should apply when it comes to teaching and learning in China’s (undergraduate-level) consecutive interpreting courses? Bearing these questions in mind, I started my research journey from China to Europe, travelling across the vast oceans of literature to search for an answer. This book is the culmination of the research and teaching journey I took over the past deca
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