Innovación tecnológica y traducción. Formación de traductores en la UE para el siglo XXI

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Carmen Valero Garcés
Daniel Toudic

Abstract

Are young translation graduates still leaving university with a high level of translation
skills, but lacking the specific, professional competence needed in the workplace, as has
often been suggested? The aim of this paper is to approach this question through the
results of research on advanced university translator education and training in the European Union, conducted under the framework of the OPTIMALE project (“Optimising
Professional Translator Training in a Multilingual Europe”). The paper will briefly present
the aims of the project, describe the methodology followed in an extensive survey of
translation employer competence requirements and will outline the main results,
describing how these were received and discussed in a series of regional joint workshops.
Finally, the OPTIMALE map of European translation degree programmes will be used to
ask whether universities are indeed trying to bridge the gap between employer
expectations and translation graduate competences.

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How to Cite

Innovación tecnológica y traducción. Formación de traductores en la UE para el siglo XXI. (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 183-202. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4145