Another Great Conference!
Posted by Jinny Bromberg on November 13, 2009
October was a busy month for us in terms of participating in some great conferences. First, there was the CFI in San Francisco and then the ATA at the end of October. ATA celebrated its 50th annual conference by having it in the Big Apple. About 2300 participants flocked to New York City to partake in this celebration. It was an opportunity to choose from 150 educational sessions, connect with old friends and make many new ones from the US and around the world. It was an adventure in acquainting numerous vendors of interpretation and translation services and technologies, as well as browsing the job market.
Educational sessions offered a great variety ranging from a review of patent translation methods for Japanese translators to becoming a more skilled mental health interpreter.
One session that caught my eye was Winning the RACE: Embracing e-Learning and Embarking on an e-Course in Translation. Susan Xu, the head of the Translation and Interpretation program at Singapore Institute of Management, shared how she overcame her initial resistance and resentment towards implementing e-learning format for translation studies. Professor Xu has designed an e-learning course in Mandarin-English technical translation, but she wasn’t convinced that the same kind of technology could be used for interpreter training. The authors of Interpreter Education Online hope to present at the next ATA conference and demonstrate an unlimited potential of e-learning in interpreting pedagogy and its successful application in multi-language interpreter training.
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