Context:
The rise of migration and multilingualism in Europe requires professional interpreters in business, legal, medical and many other settings. Future interpreters therefore need to master an ever broadening range of interpreting skills. This is difficult to achieve with traditional teaching methods and in times of reduced teaching contact hours. Also, in many emerging interpreting scenarios, a client-side understanding of how to work with an interpreter is crucial, but efforts to educate clients are scarce and normally separate from interpreter education.
ICT-based solutions have been employed in interpreter training to make teaching resources such as audio or video clips available and easily reusable. As a more advanced solution, virtual learning environments, i.e. remote or online learning and teaching facilities, have been developed to overcome problems of trainer availability and to offer more flexibility for learners. The effective integration of such solutions into everyday learning and teaching is still a point of contention, but at the same time, a new generation of ICT-based tools and platforms (e.g. Web 2.0, social software and 3D virtual environments), with the potential to provide more dynamic and comprehensive support for learning and teaching, is rapidly growing in popularity.
These solutions enable users - including learners from different contexts such as interpreting students and their potential clients (e.g. law students) - to meet and interact in virtual educational spaces, thus fostering experiential and autonomous learning, and different forms of learner collaboration. Equally important, given the increasing use of different forms of ICT-based and ‘remote’ interpreting, the use of emerging technologies in training contexts will also help interpreting students and their clients acquire digital competence and prepare them for an important aspect of future professional practice.
Speakers:
Franz Pöchhacker - University of Vienna, Austria
Annalisa Sandrelli - LUSPIO University, Italy
Claude Durand and Fernando Leitao - EC DG Interpreting
Brooke Townsley - Middlesex University, UK
Members of the IVY project consortium
Organisers:
Sabine Braun, Catherine Slater, Nick Botfield
Centre for Translation Studies
School of English and Languages
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
Contact for registration:
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This seminar has been organised with financial support from the European Commission. The seminar and its related materials reflect the views only of the participants, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of their content.
