Interpreting in the classroom: tools for teaching

Abstract

This book intends to highlight key subject matter that was always in the minds of the editors, even if a difficult one to deal with: to gather together issues that practicing specialists in conference interpreting teaching are confronted with in their everyday activities. We still hear from some of our colleagues that, when teaching translation and interpreting, didactics “does not sell”, that it is not a topic that is exotic or strange enough for specialists to devote any efforts to writing about how to teach what it is still today a difficult discipline to pass on to our students. However, many practitioners and researchers forget that the great personalities in interpreting research started by looking into how interpreting could best be understood with the idea in mind of ultimately teaching it better. So we could say that this book is the fruit of the work of a group of courageous professionals who do not shy away from showing how procedures and exercises take actual form while in the class, and how applied theory can yield promising results.

El volumen reúne una serie de artículos que inciden en contenidos difíciles de encontrar en la literatura sobre interpretación de conferencias: cómo se forma en realidad en el aula a los futuros intérpretes. Se trata de un conjunto de contribuciones valientes que exponen la forma en que distintos docentes abordan la formación de sus estudiantes, entre los que se cuentan tanto alumnos vocacionados hacia la interpretación de conferencias como aquellos que cursan este tipo de asignaturas de manera obligatoria.