Innovation in translator and interpreter training. Report on an online symposium

From 17 to 26 January 2000 some 330 people from all over the world participated in an on-line symposium on the general topic of training translators and interpreters. The main topics of debate included the use of teamwork in the classroom, class size, the accreditation of translators, how to teach literary translation, the changing role of media translation, the place of interpreting, the importance of dealing with neologisms, and the general impact of technology. In all cases the focus was on the way recent changes in the profession are or should be producing innovations in the way translators and interpreters are trained. The actual papers and discussions can be seen at http://<a href = "http://www.fut.es/~apym/symp/intro.html">www.fut.es/~apym/symp/intro.html.