Why, when and how: Aptitude testing for conference interpreting

Moser-Mercer, Barbara

doi:10.1075/btl.3.07mos

In:Bridging the Gap: Empirical research in simultaneous interpretation
Edited by Sylvie Lambert and Barbara Moser-Mercer
[Benjamins Translation Library 3] 1994
► pp. 57–68

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Aptitude testing for conference interpreting

Why, when and how

Barbara Moser-Mercer

Published online: 1 July 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.3.07mos

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