This book provides a detailed introduction and guide to researching translator and interpreter education. Providing an overview of the main research topics, trends and methods, the book covers the following six areas: training effectiveness, learning and teaching practices, assessment, translation and interpreting processes, translated and interpreted texts, and professionals' experiences and roles. The book focuses on explaining the issues and topics researched in each area, and showing how they have been researched.

As the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of translator and interpreter education research, it has important implications to developing its areas at the theoretical and practical levels. In addition, it offers an invaluable guide for those interested in researching translator and interpreter education areas, and in educating translators and interpreters.

Autorentext

Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif teaches English Language Education at Cairo University. He completed his PhD at the University of Essex, UK, in the general area of English language education, with a specific focus on the L2 writing process and the use of L1 in it. His PhD research garnered him international awards, including the ACTFL-MLJ 2009 Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education, and the CMLR 2009 Best Graduate Student Paper Award. He has published in various internationally ranked journals, including: Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Applied Linguistics, System, Assessing Writing, European Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, RECALL, and English Teaching: Practice & Critique. Abdel Latif has taught a number of translation, translation research methods, and translation technology courses to Arab graduate and undergraduate students. He has also supervised a number of MA students whose research projects focused on pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research.

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Chapter 1: Pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research: definition, historical developments, and areas1.1Defining pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research1.2Areas of pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research1.3Early studies and major historical developments 1.4This book
Chapter 2: Experimentation in pedagogical translation and interpreting research2.1Introduction 2.2Experimental translation research2.3Experimental interpreting research2.4Action research in translation studies 2.5Action research in interpreting studies2.6Instruction and curriculum models in translation and interpreting studies 2.7Conclusion
Chapter 3: Research on translation and interpreting training programme evaluation3.1Introduction 3.2Translation and interpreting training policies 3.3Programme description and evaluation 3.4Classroom practices3.5Learning practices3.6Predictors of trainee learning3.7Researching trainee needs3.8Conclusion
Chapter 4: Assessment research of translation and interpreting4.1Introduction4.2Translation/interpreting test validation4.3Translation/interpreting scale validation4.4Inter-rater reliability 4.5Translation task readability 4.6Trainer assessment literacy4.7Accreditation testing practices4.8Quality assessment, and user expectations and evaluation4.9Conclusion
Chapter 5: Issues in translator and interpreter cognitive process research5.1Introduction5.2Translator cognitive processes5.3Interpreter cognitive processes5.4Researching translator processes5.5Researching interpreter processes5.6Audio-visual translation process research 5.7Conclusion
Chapter 6: Researching translated and interpreted texts6.1Introduction6.2Errors in translated texts6.3Textual and discoursal features in translated texts6.4Linguistic and discoursal features in interpreted texts6.5Conclusion Chapter 7: Researching practitioner translator and interpreter experiences 7.1Introduction7.2Areas of practitioner translator and interpreter research 7.3Researching practitioner translator experiences 7.4Researching practitioner interpreter experiences 7.5Conclusion
Chapter 8: Future perspectives in pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research8.1Addressing less-researched languages and genres8.2Balancing translation versus interpreting research sub-areas8.3Filling research gaps8.4Using more rigorous research designs8.5Overcoming data collection and analysis difficulties