Translator and interpreter training. Curriculum design. New prospects and dilemmas

• Authors: Piotr Kwieciński , Marcin Feder
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Institutional changes within universities and the challenge of EU enlargement present translator and interpreter trainers with both new opportunities and dilemmas. The major potential tension areas that must be addressed in the curricula include the status of retour translation and interpreting, the role of liaison interpreting in the curriculum, the separation of interpreter and translator training, and the focus on skills and techniques vs. background knowledge. The article suggests tentative solutions in these areas, based on the authors' own experience in curriculum design. The limitations and advantages of a postgraduate training programme within a foreignlanguage department are also discussed.

Keywords

EN

Interpreter training; New prospects

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 30
• Pages: 57-67

Dates

published

2018-11-01

Contributors

author

Piotr Kwieciński

author

Marcin Feder

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2005.30.06