Teachers as learners: an enquiry into the needs of novice interpreter trainers

Diplôme Master d'études avancées Teachers as learners: an enquiry into the needs of novice interpreter trainers eng 2012 author Herring Rachel 738292 author Liao Min-Hsiu 738295 author Wintringham Christine 738299 director Moser-Mercer Barbara 22839 Interpreting has been a field of plentiful research over the last decades and has established itself as a scientific discipline of its own. However, the role of the interpreter trainer in the process of conveying the skill has often been touched upon in an accessory manner. In order to close this gap, this study seeks to explore which skills and knowledge novice interpreter trainers are in need of at the beginning of their career. The study is methodologically conceived as a perception-based analysis of surveyed opinions amongst active trainers via an online survey. Many commonalities and a few areas of difference have been identified in the needs of conference and community interpreter trainers. The results point towards a lack of support for novice trainers by their institutions as they begin their teaching career. We have noted a strong emphasis on interpreting skills, pedagogy, and aspects of personality. Relatively low support for the importance of theory has also been explored. The findings indicate that, ideally, all interpreter trainers should have interpreting and teaching skills. Another subdomain-specific finding for conference interpreter trainers points towards the need for more training in pedagogy. Interpreter trainer Novice interpreter trainer Training of interpreter trainers Interpreting theory Interpreting pedagogy, interpreting subdomains Trainers' learning needs Teaching skills Learning to teach Support for novice interpreter trainers. Dewey 418.02 MAS in interpreter training 113 Département d'interprétation 93 false 3fae2e78-1974-4a38-bc35-02d228d95223 Master thesis Restricted HerringWintringhamLiao.pdf 1117748 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département d'interprétation

Title	Published in	Access level	OA Policy	Year	Views	Downloads

Teachers as learners: an enquiry into the needs of novice interpreter trainers				2012	704	8

Archive ouverte UNIGE

Liao, Min-Hsiu