Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training
The article discusses the role of exercises for beginners in conference interpreting classes, introduces possible ways to create such exercises by means of speech corpora available online, and advocates for a combination of research-informed and technology-assisted approach to interpreter training....
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| description | The article discusses the role of exercises for beginners in conference interpreting classes, introduces possible ways to create such exercises by means of speech corpora available online, and advocates for a combination of research-informed and technology-assisted approach to interpreter training. First, the state of research in interpreting pedagogy, and in particular the concept of part-task training are briefly described. The goal of decreasing cognitive effort during interpreting, and during the learning process, underlines the usefulness of part-task exercises for automatization of interpreting sub-skills. Based on this theoretic rationale, available handbooks for interpreter trainers are critically assessed. It is argued that interpreting programs could benefit from collections of exercises, or from methods to create them. In interpreter training, especially corpora of political speeches allow the creation of multiple exercises for automatization of certain sub- skills, which is illustrated by several examples. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17526180bc9143ca8ad718a72cf1d9eb2022-12-22T04:19:36ZengUniversity Babes-BolyaiJournal of Research in Higher Education2559-66242022-12-0162708710.24193/JRHE.2022.2.4Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter TrainingVladimir Balakhonov0Department of Translation Studies, University of Innsbruck, AustriaThe article discusses the role of exercises for beginners in conference interpreting classes, introduces possible ways to create such exercises by means of speech corpora available online, and advocates for a combination of research-informed and technology-assisted approach to interpreter training. First, the state of research in interpreting pedagogy, and in particular the concept of part-task training are briefly described. The goal of decreasing cognitive effort during interpreting, and during the learning process, underlines the usefulness of part-task exercises for automatization of interpreting sub-skills. Based on this theoretic rationale, available handbooks for interpreter trainers are critically assessed. It is argued that interpreting programs could benefit from collections of exercises, or from methods to create them. In interpreter training, especially corpora of political speeches allow the creation of multiple exercises for automatization of certain sub- skills, which is illustrated by several examples.http://jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/2022-1/2022-issue-no-2-vol-vi/vladimir-balakhonov/vladimir-balakhonov_art/interpreter trainingcognitive interpreting studiespart-task trainingexercisescorpus studies |
| spellingShingle | Vladimir Balakhonov Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training Journal of Research in Higher Education interpreter training cognitive interpreting studies part-task training exercises corpus studies |
| title | Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training |
| title_full | Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training |
| title_short | Corpus-Assisted Exercises in Conference Interpreter Training |
| title_sort | corpus assisted exercises in conference interpreter training |
| topic | interpreter training cognitive interpreting studies part-task training exercises corpus studies |
| url | http://jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/2022-1/2022-issue-no-2-vol-vi/vladimir-balakhonov/vladimir-balakhonov_art/ |
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