The Yelabuga Institute of the Kazan Federal University recently published two articles by Cyril Flerov, a Russian Conference Interpreter and Faculty Member at the Monterey Institute. The articles were entitled “Skills, Abilities and Types of Knowledge the Simultaneous Conference Interpreter Needs” and “On Two Modes of Simultaneous Interpretation”. Both articles can be found online.
Congratulations, Cyril!
Caroline Fuchs, an alumna of the MIIS MATESOL program, recently published a memorial piece for the late Dr. Leo van Lier. According to Caroline, “words can’t do justice to the wisdom that Leo encompassed for those who were fortunate enough to have known him. This is my humble attempt at expressing my thoughts.”
If you would like to read the piece in its entirety, you can download it here.
Anthony Pym, visiting researcher at GSTILE, is in Brussels on October 25 to present the results of a one-year research project on Translation and Language Teaching.
The presentation will be part of the DGT’s Translation Studies Days, to be webcast live: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/publications/studies/.
The research has been carried out for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Translation. Professor Pym is the lead investigator, with input from the European Society for Translation Studies, the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, and over 100 experts contacted worldwide.
The research shows that there is no strong empirical evidence that the creative use of translation has a negative effect on the learning of a foreign language.
The Executive Summary can be downloaded here.
The final report can be downloaded here.
While in Europe, Professor Pym will be in Tarragona on October 24 for the public defenses of two doctoral dissertations that he has supervised: Postediting Machine Translation Output and its Revision: Professional Translators versus Subject-Matter Experts, by Özlem Temizöz, and Training for the Translation Market in Turkey: an Analysis of Curricula and Stakeholders, by Volga Tilmaz-Gümüs.
Rebecca Cheney, MA TESOL with Language Program Administration Specialization 2008, was recently elected as the 2nd Vice President of Intermountain TESOL (iTESOL). According to Professor Kathi Bailey, “This is both a great honor and an important step in terms of her role as a leader in our field.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
On September 25th, 2013, Professor Anthony Pym will be speaking at Hong Kong Baptist University during a public seminar. His talk is entitled “Translation as an Intercultural Event”.
The following day, Professor Pym will be giving a talk entitled “Modernity and Dissemination of the Western Translation Form” in Zhuhai, China.
For more information about these events, please see the following:
Hong Kong Baptist University. Public seminar: “Translation as intercultural event”, September 25, 2013.
Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China. 1st East & West Conference on Translation Studies. Plenary: “Modernity and dissemination of the Western translation form”, September 26, 2013.
The China State Council Information Office, Chinese Writers Association, and China International Publishing Group have launched a translation contest for translators in both China and abroad. The organizing committee will provide 30 contemporary Chinese short stories as source texts for translation. The deadline for submitting entries is February 28, 2014, and there will be one first prize of $5,000, two second prizes of $3,000, and several third prizes of $1,000 for each language.
For more information, please visit: http://www.china.org.cn/arts/citc/index.htm
Meeting Challenges!
Saturday, October 5, 2013
8 AM -1 PM
Sam Karas Room,
LTC (library & technology center)
Monterey Peninsula College
Registration 8 AM – 8:30 AM
Featuring:
Dr. Lynn Goldstein, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Feedback to Adult Second Language Writers in Academic Settings
Dr. Ellen Lipp, Linguistics Department, CSU, Fresno
Accessing Academic texts through a new SQ3R_E
Approach and Common Core Standards
Dr. Barbara Birch, Linguistics Department, CSU, Fresno
Implementing the Common Core K-12 Language Standards
with Construction Grammar