Learning In and Beyond the Classroom: A Video for Translator Trainers

This video on new approaches to learning and teaching is aimed at anyone, whether teacher, trainer or staff in a private organisation, who needs to embrace new working practices and approaches.

Watch the video: Learning in and beyond the classroom

For translator trainers and researchers, it is a useful prompt to rethink training practices and the issues that arise in a translation programme or course. Two ideas stand out:

• Create a translation certificate or diploma programme for non-traditional students, that is, people already working as freelancers or in-house translators who want further professional development or accreditation, for instance a diploma in translation they do not yet hold.
• Apply the same thinking to standard BA and MA translation courses in a bi-modal university (one that offers both classroom-based and distance courses). Some translation competences are better developed through a learner-centred, collaborative approach (project work in practicums), supported by educationally sound technology, especially web-based tools such as email, forums, discussion threads, chat and synchronous tools.