Pavol Šveda teaches interpreting studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Combining an active interpreting career with the training of future interpreters, his research concerns the pedagogy of interpreter training, curriculum design, and the sociological aspects of translation and interpreting.

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Introducing interpreter training in Central Europe

Part I.: Interpreter training programmes in continuous evolution

2. Public service interpreting in the context of social and political tensions
3. Pathways in interpreter training: an Austrian perspective
4. Sign-language interpreting and community interpreting - collaboration and mutual gains
5. Towards a common blended learning model for conference and public service interpreting: A case study
6. The evolution of interpreter training in Hungary: from consecutive to conference and legal interpreting
7. New training methods and education formats in interpreter training at the Institute of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
8. Designing curricula from scratch: how countries in Central Europe with no tradition of formal PSIT training provide interpreting in the public sector
9. From conference to community interpreter education: The transformation of interpreter education in Slovenia

Part II.: Motivating students of interpreting

10. Motivational structure and the interpreter's personality
11. Interpreter trainees' performance - motivation, quality and assessment (an empirical study)
12. Self-reflection tools in interpreter training: a case study involving learners' diaries
13. Interpreter training in Central Europe: looking back and ahead

Index