Remote interpreting training: An intercollegiate experience

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Francisco Javier Vigier-Moreno
University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain)
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0996-2578
Biography
Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez
University of Alcalá (UAH)
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8704-3403
Biography
No 29 (2019): Innovative educational responses to climate change, Articles, pages 141-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ie.29.6271
Submitted: 14-09-2019 Accepted: 24-11-2019 Published: 10-12-2019
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Remote interpreting, that is, oral language mediation undertaken through technological means (such as telephone interpreting and videoconference interpreting), is gaining momentum all over the world thanks to its unquestionable advantages in terms of cost and availability of interpreters, both geographic and temporal. Nevertheless, interpreter training schools seem to not offer training programmes in this new working mode in interpreting. With the aim of filling this gap, an intercollegiate workshop in remote interpreting was held in the academic years 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 for interpreter trainees from both the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville and the University of Alcala. This paper describes and discusses the design, implementation, methodology and assessment of this teaching experience.

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remote interpreting, interpreter training, teaching methodology
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