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Valtchuk, Oleksandra; Class, Barbara – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
In the context of an ever-increasing use of social networks, researchers have studied their use in higher education and the development of communities of practice in formal and informal virtual learning environments. However, no research so far has linked non-institutional group chats and (situated) learning as part of interpreter training. This…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Universities, Masters Programs
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Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Since 2000, translator and interpreter trainers have been arguing against the use of a transmissionist approach and for the use of a transformationist approach. Such a change in instructional approach is rooted in a shift in trainers' beliefs from behaviourism to social constructivism/situated learning. Teachers' beliefs on the nature of knowledge…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Translation, Educational Change, Constructivism (Learning)