Present critical developments in European multilingualism have brought to the fore the growing importance of training translators and interpreters and the need for a more innovative, less teacher-centred approach. This volume would therefore seem all the more strategic now. It is the natural development of the Vic Forum which took place in the spring of 1999 and in which I had the pleasure of participating. The conference provided the site for valuable debate on new insights in communicating principles and procedures for translator/interpreter training.

Originating at an international forum held at the University of Vic (Spain), the twelve essays collected here attest to important changes in translation practice and the assumptions which underpin them. Leading theorists respond to the state of Translation Studies today, particularly the epistemological dilemma between theories that are empirically oriented and those that are inspired by developments in Cultural Studies.

But the volume is also practical. Experienced instructors survey existing pedagogies at translator/interpreter training programs and explore new techniques that address the technological and global challenges of the new millennium. Among the topics considered are: how to use translation technology in the classroom, how to construct a syllabus for a course in audiovisual translating or in translation theory, and how to develop guidelines for a program for community interpreters or conference interpreters.

The contributors all assume that translation, whether written or oral, does not occupy a neutral space. It is a cross-cultural exchange that produces far-reaching social effects. Their essays significantly advance the theoretical and practical understanding of translation along these lines.

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Foreword

Eugene A. Nida

Introduction

Martha Tennent

I. Training programmes: The current situation and future prospects

CHAPTER 1

Training translators: Programmes, curricula, practices

Margherita Ulrych

CHARTER 2

Training interpreters: Programmes, curricula, practices

Helge Niska

II. Pedagogical strategies

CHAPTER 3

Minding the process, improving the product: Alternatives to

traditional translator training

Maria Gonzdlez Davies

CHAPTER 4

Audiovisual translation

Francesca Bartrina and Eva Espasa

CHAPTER 5

Computer-assisted translation

Richard Samson

CHAPTER 6

Teaching conference interpreting: A contribution

Daniel Gile

CHAPTER 7

Training interpreters to work in the public services

Ann Corsellis

III. The relevance of theory to training

CHAPTER 8

Theory and translator training

Francesca Bartrina

CHAPTER 9

Causality in translator training

Andrew Chesterman

CHAPTER ]0

Training functional translators

Christiane Nord

CHAPTER 1 1

The ethics of translation in contemporary approaches

to translator training

Rosemary Arrojo

IV. Epilogue

CHAPTER 12

Deschooling translation: Beginning of century reflections on

teaching translation and interpreting

Michael Cronin

Index