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Programme
Qualifying translators : the role and responsibilities of Higher Education
| Friday September 22 - 2006 | |||
| 9:45 | Welcoming address – The President of the University | ||
| 10:00 | Scientific committee | A panorama (Fre/Eng) | |
| Employability from the employer’s point of view (D. Gouadec) | |||
| The skill profiles of the a) translator-localiser-etc. b) reviser c) project manager d) ‘others’ as seen by : | |||
| 10:15 | Lionbridge Technologies | SDL International | STAR AG |
| 11:15 | The National Union of translation service providers (Fre) | ||
| 11:35 | Freelance translators: The freelancer : How « they » see « us » (Fre) | ||
| 11:55 | J. Elton : Employability of the new translators in Ontario (Eng) | ||
| 12:15 | Survey results (collective) (Fre/Eng) | ||
| 12:35 | Round table 1: getting the picture right | ||
| Friday September 22 - 2006 | |||||
| Professional standards and the universities (J.M. Vande Walle) | |||||
| 14:00 | John D. Graham | Standardisation for translators - a new aspect (Eng) | |||
| 14:30 | Marcel Thelen | The new European standards on translation services and translation quality assessment: their place and role in a professionally oriented course (Eng) | |||
| Skills. Acquiring the skills | |||||
| Session 1 (Yves Gambier) | Session 2 (R.M. Spittal) | ||||
| 15:15 | PACTE (Fre) | An empirical research on competence in translating | George HO (Eng) | T-training: admission criteria, training, employability, market and income | |
| 15:40 | Hurtado Amparo Kuznik Anna (Fre) |
Curricular planning in translation Professional profiles – a survey |
Skibinska, Elzbieta (Fre) | How French language graduate translators find jobs. | |
| 16:05 | Cees Koster & Ton Naaijkens (Eng) | The Utrecht programme Curriculum development: between market and academic requirements | Jean-René Ladmiral (Fre) | Should we teach translation studies to budding professionals? | |
| 16:30 | Oleksadr Cherednychenko (Fre) | The translator’s professional skills at level 5 | Indrek Koff (Fre) | Answering the challenges of diversity in student populations and markets – the University of Tallinn’s answer | |
| 16:55 | Michel Décombe (Fre) | Integrating professionnal projects –French-German cooperation | Angela Soltan (Fre) | Training translators in the context of the Moldovan Republic: going local or regional? | |
| 17:20 | Avanti, E. Calvo (Eng) | Employability from the students’ perspective: an insight on job expectations among Spanish Translation and Interpreting students | Awang Rokia (Eng) | Translator Training in Malaysia | |
| 17:45 | Avanti (Eng) | The role of student mobility in university translation programmes | Lü Shisheng (Eng) | Trends in Translator Employment Market in China and Training Mode Selection | |
| 18:10 | Bueno García, Antonio (Fre) | New tools for the teaching of translation: the QUEST system | Maud Esski (Eng) | Training over the world: who fares best? | |
| Saturday, September 23. 2006 | ||
| Accreditation (Yves Gambier) | ||
| 9:30 | Alan K. Melby (Eng) | The need for accreditation of translator certification programs (ISO 17024) |
| 10:00 | Claudia V. Angelelli (Eng) | Bridging Assessment, Second Language Acquisition, and Translation Theory on the road to certification and accreditation: the American Translators Association model |
| 10:30 | Chris Durban (Fre/Eng) | What national and international associations can do. |
| 11:00 | CIUTI M. Forsner H. Lee-Janhke (Fre/Eng) |
Contribute to the development of research in translation and interpretation and to the continued development of the training of professional translators and interpreters across the world. |
| The answers (1) (Elisabeth Lavault-Olléon) | ||
| 11:30 | Dorothy Kelly (Eng) | Reflections on current practices in university translation programme evaluation and accreditation |
| 12:00 | Round table 1: What skills, to what purpose? (Fre/Eng) | |
| 12:45 – Buffet lunch | ||
| The answers (2) (D. Gouadec) | ||
| 14:15 | Round table 2: Can we really do something about accreditation? (Fre/Eng) | |
| Summary | ||