Seminar on Interpreting & Note-taking (Latest Trends & Group Work) - based on B. Jarwitz & D. Fleming Conceptual Project – S.C.I.C.

Seminar on Cons Interpretation (one to three days)

Day I (six hours)

• Participants introduce themselves
• Presentation of seminar content and note-taking

• The ideal candidate and graduate- group work) –

• Pedagogical progression / - debates

• Self-training / preparation

• First steps in interpreter training – practical work
• Role-play: Cons (no-notes) – practical

• Presentation: Memory training in consecutive

• Role-play CONS (no-notes) + debriefing – practical speeches and their interpretations. Speaker – interpreter – customer. Group appraisal work.

• General approach to training – discussion

• Running a training session

• Presentation: Who is the interpreter now?

• Speechmaking with exercises – practicals

• Teaching note-taking
• Common problems encountered with note-taking / general approach
• Cons role-play

• Role play CONS notes with students – practicals
• Debriefing – summing up.


Day II (six hours)

• Translation consecutive to simultaneous
• Introduction to simultaneous, SIM & CON compared.

• Introduction to simultaneous role play – optional

• Advanced sim and simultaneous (optional)
• EU standards

Day II (cont) or Day III

• Pedagogical assistance in interpreter training
• Professional ethics / Role play

• Aptitude testing – group work / Practical work

• Final examinations in interpretations / tests
• SCIC (assessment criteria and standards)

• Other issues arising / Role play

• Debriefing. Practical training: sight / consecutive interpreting/

• Final Debriefing & Results Appraisal.