in the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. however, l...

Artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning technologies and big data have impacted on the interpretation market AI-based can be used in automated speech translation. The first experiments to create an automatic interpreter took place at end of 1980s early 1990s. Today, there are several devices available which attempt fully automatize interpreting process, both consecutive simultaneous mode a ...

This paper used medical interpreting as an example to examine the recent attention to the communicative nature of translation and interpretation. In presenting the historical development of community interpreting, I examined the reasons why the communicative aspect of translation and interpretation has been ignored in the traditional translation studies. The recent research on community interpr...

This article is a contribution to the study of strategic competence in interpreting. After a brief overview of the main contributions dealing with the concept of strategies and problems in interpreting, the article presents a pilot study which analyses the interpreting problems encountered by two groups of students at two different stages of training and the strategies they apply. It details an...

Consecutive interpreting (CI) has gained increasing popularity and application in today’s world. Fluency is a criterion for CI output assessment. Although disfluencies among CI professionals were investigated in previous studies, little research has been done on the disfluency prevalence among CI undergraduate learners. Nor is the advantage of the language lab facilities studied in terms of hel...

This paper explores the perspectives of Iraqi undergraduates studying consecutive and simultaneous interpreting (CI, SI) in Department Translation at Mustansiriyah University Iraq following sudden transition to online environment due Covid-19. The mode teaching learning has never been adopted before. study, therefore, aims investigate challenges opportunities that have emerged from this unprece...

Complexity of simultaneous interpreting has long attracted the interest of researchers and led them to explore different linguistic, psychological, cognitive, social, and neurological factors involved in enabling the human mind to perform such a difficult task. Within the framework of cognitive studies of interpreting, the authors of this study aimed at exploring the relationship between select...

The current paper intends to explore whether there are significant correlations between students’ self-efficacy and their self-assessment accuracy how the former mediates latter. Framed within an undergraduate interpreting classroom in China, which shares similar pedagogical aims with general foreign language courses, a total of 53 senior students completed Interpreting Self-Efficacy (ISE) Scal...