Teaching Active Memory Skills as Part of Interpreter Training

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Teaching Active Memory Skills as Part of Interpreter Training
Original language description
In this paper I describe the rationale behind teaching active memory skills as part of interpreter training, and I present some of the strategies and resources we use in our courses. Reliable memory is undoubtedly one of the key tools interpreters use intheir work. However, when our students enter the first course of their Bachelor interpreter training, their active memory skills are often not sufficient. Students are usually well equipped with vocabulary, grammar and cultural background information but as informal questionnaires distributed in the initial interpreter seminars show, until the students start their regular interpreting practice, they do not realise how poor their active memory skills are. This paper provides some of the reasons behind the insufficient memory skills of the present-day secondary school leaver and analyses the consequences this particular inadequacy may have on the process of interpretation and its final outcome. Further, I discuss why some of the generall
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Teaching Translation and Interpreting Skills in the 21st Century
ISBN
978-80-244-3252-6
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Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
179-185
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Nov 11, 2011
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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