Survey of the Use of New Technologies in Conference Interpreting Courses

The evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) over the last twenty years has led to new ways of teaching and training in conference interpreting. Various tools and technologies have been increasingly adopted by conference interpreting courses either for blended learning – combining face-to-face instruction and computer-mediated instruction – or for students’ self-study. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted among EMCI training institutions to examine the current use of new technologies in conference interpreter training. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the extent to which EMCI-member universities have introduced new technologies into their conference interpreting courses as well as to ascertain to what extent new technologies in conference interpreting classes are considered useful by trainers, which ones are preferred and which practices have proved best in fostering training and study.