Online informal learning community for interpreter training amid COVID-19: A pilot evaluation

ABSTRACT: Sudden shifts towards online education since the outbreak of Covid-19 propelled the unprepared changes in teaching and learning over the world. The impact of transferring Interpreter training from face-to-face instruction and practices to a fully online environment was viewed differently. Issues such as relatively inferior engagement in learning and dissatisfied performance in competence building were highlighted and compounded by the concern of academic burnout and learning stress caused by the abiding pandemic. To curb the unsatisfactory situation, alternative learning methods and innovative pedagogical approaches were advocated. The present study was a pioneering effort to integrate informal learning into remote interpreter training by developing and implementing an online informal lear

SUBMITTER: Yan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature