TRENDS

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TRENDS

• languages
• -technology
• -status

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Training suited to new needs?

•  ..un écart tendait à se creuser entre la
  demande des employeurs et loffre dinterprètes
  produite par les filières denseignement  La
  relève

3
Globish?Badly spoken English?Lingua franca?

• 85 of scientific, technical or academic papers
• More than 80 of home pages on Web
• 750 million non-native speakers master English
  well enough for business or computing

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ENGLISH

• role
• range
• retour

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Diversification

• . Multilingualism
• . International organisations
• . Actual communication abilities

6
Technology

• Internet
• Remote interpreting
• Visual aids

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Remote interpreting

• Convenience
• Room
• Cost
• Environment

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Consequences- status interpreting increasingly
remote-  unnatural ,  irrational  (SI,
comments by Seleskovitch Lederer) same fears
again -  artificial, inconsistent, virtual
environment 
- teaching factoring in new
technologies-advantages resource pooling
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Internet

• Before too little information, now information
  overload
• Bias
• Preparation in the internet environment

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Status

• Major source of worry for interpreters tendency
  to gloom and despondency
•  this almost schizophrenic mental and
  physical exercise  (Keiser)
• feminisation
•  The status of interpreters cannot be enhanced
  if the only people involved in the profession are
  women  LIM Hyang-Ok
• greater distance between participants and
  interpreters physical but also cultural cf move
  to B

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Gloom justified?

• Chief interpretersalarm how to fill posts?
• Number and quality of applicants.
• Objective status benchmarks.

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Conclusions

• Changes afoot
• Therefore, courses must be flexible
• Must be run by practising professionals in touch
  with market
• Resource sharing, both more feasible and more
  necessary
• Profession more demanding quality.
• Also need flanking policies language learning,
  funding and status of interpreter training,
  policies on language use by official delegations.