Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! Our guest today is Patricia Rodríguez-Inés, senior lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She will talk about translation competence. 

Suggested readings

Hurtado Albir, A. & Rodríguez-Inés, P. (eds.) (2022). Towards a European framework of competence levels in translation. The PACTE group’s NACT project. MonTi (Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación). Special Issue 7. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2022.ne7 [EN]

Hurtado Albir, A. & Rodríguez-Inés, P. (2023). Establishing Competence Levels in the Acquisition of Translation Competence in Written Translation. THIRD NACT PROPOSAL. https://www.effortproject.eu/framework-for-translation-levels-a-b/third-nact-proposal-of-descriptors/ [EN]

Hurtado Albir, A.; Rodríguez-Inés, P.; Prieto Ramos, F.; Dam, H.V.; Dimitriu, R.; Haro Soler, M.M.; Huertas Barros, E.; Kujamäki, M.; Kuźnik, A.; Pokorn, N.; van Egdom, G.M.W.; Ciobanu, S.; Cogeanu-Haraga, O.; Ghivirigă, T.; González Cruz, S.; Gostkowska, K.; Pisanski Peterlin, A.; Vesterager, A.K.; Vine, J.; Walczyński, M.; Zethsen, K.K. (2023). Common European Framework of Reference for Translation – Competence Level C (specialist translator): A proposal by the EFFORT Project. https://www.effortproject.eu/ [EN, ES, FR, DA, DE, FI, IT, NL, PL, RO, SL]

Further resources

https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/patricia-rodriguez-ines-3

https://www.effortproject.eu/

https://www.effortproject.eu/framework-for-translation-levels-a-b/self-assessment-tool/ 

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 Hello and welcome to Minds between languages. Our guest today is Binghan Zheng, professor in translation studies at Durham University, United Kingdom. He will talk about investigating "interpreter advantage". 

Suggested readings

Zhang, X., Zheng, B.*, Wang, R. & He, H. (2025) Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 1-11. doi.org/10.1017/S136672892500032X

Zheng, B. et al. (2020). Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality. Brain & Cognition 143(105584). pp.1-11. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105584

Weng, Y., Zheng, B. * & Dong, Y. (2022). Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures. Target, 34(4). pp. 601-626. doi.org/10.1075/target.20148.wen

Further resources

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/binghan-zheng/

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Hello and welcome to a new episode to Minds between Languages! Today is with us associate prof. Agnieszka Chmiel from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznán (Poland). She will share with us her expertise on visual input in interpreting. 

Suggested readings

Chmiel, A., Janikowski, P., & Cieślewicz, A. (2020). The eye or the ear? Source language interference in sight translation and simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 22(2), 187-210.

Chmiel, A., Janikowski, P., & Lijewska, A. (2020). Multimodal processing in simultaneous interpreting with text: Interpreters focus more on the visual than the auditory modality. Target, 32(1), 37–58.

Li, T., & Chmiel, A. (2024). Automatic subtitles increase accuracy and decrease cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 26(2), 253–281.

Further resources

https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/pracownicy/agnieszka-chmiel

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 Hello and welcome to a new episode of Minds between Languages! Joining us today is Prof. Michaela Albl-Mikasa from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) who will be talking about English as a lingua franca and what it means for interpreters.

Suggested readings
Albl-Mikasa, M. & Gieshoff, A. C. (2024). Working with non-standard input in interpreting (research). In Christopher D. Mellinger, The Routledge handbook of interpreting and cognition (205-223).

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela (2023). Relevance of ELF speakers’ source speeches: interpreters’ interventions. META 68/2, 384 - 405.

Albl-Mikasa, M. (2022). Conference interpreting and English as a lingua franca. In M. Albl-Mikasa & E. Tiselius (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of conference interpreting (pp. 546-563). London: Routledge.

Albl-Mikasa, M. (2020). Interpreters’ roles and responsibilities. In E. Angelone, M. Ehrensberger-Dow & G. Massey (Eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to language industry studies (pp. 91–114). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, 2020. Note-taking. In M. Baker & G, Saldanha (Eds.), Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies (pp. 380–385). London: Routledge.

Further resources

https://www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/person/albm/

https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/research/interpreting-studies/

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