Over the past decade, testing and assessing spoken-language interpreting has garnered an
increasing amount of attention from stakeholders in interpreter education, professional …

ABSTRACT The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies remains the most
authoritative reference work for students and scholars interested in engaging with the …

The book investigates theories and measures of working memory in second language
learning, processing and development. Research syntheses, theoretical perspectives and …

Recent studies indicate that heritage language speakers have professional opportunities in
translation and interpreting (eg, Carreira, 2014a) because of their unique linguistic and …

Interpreting is a complex bilingual task, placing high demands on both language control (ie,
source language not interfering in target language production) and processing control (ie …

This chapter examines the proposal of “working memory (WM) as language aptitude”.
Specifically, it summarizes how the multiple components and functions of WM contribute to …

The multilingual turn is increasingly endorsed and promoted by such political forces as the
Council of Europe. The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (Council of Europe …

Interpreting can be seen as a form of language production, where interpreters extract
conceptual information from the source language and express it in the target language …

With an intention to contribute to the issue of how language experience may influence
working memory (WM), we focused on consecutive interpreting (CI), analyzed its potential …

This paper reports on an investigation of the interactions between source speech difficulty,
interpreters' work experience and their note-taking behaviour in video remote interpreting …