The Teaching of Conference Interpretation in the Course of the Last 50 Years

Seleskovitch, Danica

doi:10.1075/intp.4.1.07sel

Article published In: History of Interpreting
Edited by Ingrid Kurz and Margareta Bowen
[Interpreting 4:1] 1999
► pp. 55–66

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The Teaching of Conference Interpretation in the Course of the Last 50 Years

Danica Seleskovitch | Université de Paris III

Published online: 24 January 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.4.1.07sel

This contribution looks back at 50 years of teaching conference interpretation. The author discusses natural interpretation and irrational, system-imposed interpreting and sets forth the underlying linguistic assumptions that explain conflicting views on shadowing, simultaneous into a B language, note taking, etc.¹

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