Translators Training: Teaching Programs, Curricula, Practices

Section I: Teaching Improvement Practices and Programs

Teaching commercial MT to translators

This paper presents the experiment that was led at the University Paris 7 to teach machine translation to translation students. Linking machine translation with translation-training in order to help students acquire the linguistic and technical skills increasingly required on the translation market has become part of a number of translation syllabuses in the last few years. Although, MT knowled...

Developing ITV Best Teaching Practices and Effective Professional Development Programs

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of an effective State Interactive Video (ITV) program relating to teacher qualifications and strategies, student research and involvement, organization, economical benefits, and technical support. Evidence from this study suggests that ITV instructors need more organization and preparation than is typically required for face-to-face te...

Training translators for smart drug discovery.

To achieve advances in clinical medicine, we need investigators with a sophisticated understanding of medicine and pharmacology who are capable of projecting their preclinical research across the translational divide. Such expertise in translational medicine and therapeutics has become scant in academia, industry, and regulatory bodies. Here we discuss strategies for addressing this deficit in ...

European Mathematics Curricula and Classroom Practices