PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FUTURE TRANSLATORS AVIATION INDUSTRY

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Conceptions of professional competence

150-250 words Professional and practice-based learning is a process which manifests itself in many different forms. It differs by personal characteristics of the learners, levels of their professions, fields of practice, intentionality of their learning, and formalisation of the learning activities. Notions of competence have entered this diverse practice in many ways. The question is whether c...

Corpus Resources for Translators: Academic Luxury or Professional Necessity?

Since the late 1990s, corpora have become established as popular and useful translation resources within translator training institutes; however, the uptake of corpora in the world of professional translators appears to have been considerably slower. This article explores the different uses of corpora (including translation memories) in these two sectors and attempts to account for these differ...

Defining and assessing professional competence.

CONTEXT Current assessment formats for physicians and trainees reliably test core knowledge and basic skills. However, they may underemphasize some important domains of professional medical practice, including interpersonal skills, lifelong learning, professionalism, and integration of core knowledge into clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To propose a definition of professional competence, to rev...

"Professional competence or obsolescence--which?

A GOOD DOCroR NEVER GRADUATES! MAY I present Dr. Obsolescing Smith and Dr. Competent Smith ? Both are qualified and registered to practise the healing art on the basis of existing legal requirements. Fifteen years ago both completed the first phase of their medical education and received their respective medical degrees. Dr. 0. Smith graduated finally and irrevocably. With joyous abandon he sev...