Contratación temporal de mediadores interculturales

Contratación temporal de mediadores interculturales/TISSPP (titulados en Traducción e Interpretación en Servicios Públicos o con experiencia en el campo) en español-inglés/chino/árabe/francés para el proyecto de investigación "Mediación Interlinguística e intercultural: Diseño, coordinación y seguimiento de un equipo de mediadores sanitarios"(Universidad de Alcalá).

Fecha de Inicio: 26/03/2012

Fecha finalización: 25/06/2012. 20 horas semanales. Alrededor de 800 Euros brutos mensuales.

Los interesados deberán rellenar la solicitud antes del 6/03/12 en https://portal.uah.es/portal/page/portal/investigacion/convocatorias

Mesa Redonda: El mercado de la traducción ¿Qué ofrece?¿Cómo acceder?

El pasado 23 de febrero de 2012 se celebró en la Universidad de Alcalá la mesa redonda El mercado de la traducción ¿Qué ofrece? ¿Cómo acceder? en la que participaron profesionales del campo de la traducción como Juan José Arevalillo, representante de la empresa de traducción HERMES, Margaret Clark, ex-presidenta de la ASETRAD y Daniela Simionescu de la Dirección General de Traducción de la UE.

El primero en ofrecer una visión muy compleja sobre las posibilidades de trabajo en el campo de la traducción fue Juan José Arevalillo, director de la empresa de traducción HERMES. Durante su presentación explicó entre otras cosas la importancia que tiene presentar un CV impecable a la hora de buscar un trabajo así como tener una buena actitud y estar dispuesto y consciente de que el campo de la traducción implica una formación continua incluso cuando uno ya se ha incorporado en el mercado laboral.

La intervención del representante de la empresa de traducción Hermes fue completada por otra intervención igual de interesante realizada por Margaret Clark, ex-presidenta de ASETRAD que informó a los alumnos sobre los detalles más relevantes relacionados con los trámites para ser traductor autónomo.

La mesa redonda fue clausurada por la intervención de Daniela Simionescu que ofreció la perspectiva laboral de un organismo internacional: UE - Dirección General de la Traducción. Su intervención destacó por el carácter interactivo y el tono optimista, animando a los alumnos a buscar activamente distintas oportunidades laborales.

Organizado por el Grupo FITISPos–UAH para ofrecer a los alumnos del Máster Universitario en Comunicación Intercultural, Interpretación y Traducción en los Servicios Públicos y a los del Grado en Lenguas Modernas y Traducción un panorama general sobre diferentes salidas profesionales de la formación en traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos (TISP) el evento resultó muy exitoso. Por un lado, se han escuchado opiniones y experiencias de profesionales y expertos y por otro lado se han formulado preguntas y aclarado dudas específicas sobre esto campo.

Seminarios de formación TISP - 3ª edición

SEMINARIOS DE FORMACIÓN 3ª EDICIÓN

¡Acércate! a la Universidad de Alcalá el mes de febrero y marzo y descubre las posibilidades que ofrecen la interpretación telefónica, la traducción e interpretación jurídico-financiera y las nuevas tecnologías aplicadas a la TISP de la mano de distintos profesionales del sector. Es una oportunidad inigualable para profundizar en las características de estos diferentes tipos de interpretación y traducción y posteriormente poner en práctica lo aprendido.

La interpretación también avanza…

¡No te quedes atrás!


SEMINARIO I: TRADUCCIÓN JURÍDICO- FINANCIERA (27 febrero -1 marzo 2012)
                            (inglés-español)
SEMINARIO II: INTERPRETACIÓN TELÉFONICA (5 – 8 marzo 2012)


SEMINARIO III: NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS APLICADAS A LA TISP (12-15 marzo 2012)



Organizadores: Grupo FITISPos-UAH


Para más información: http://www2.uah.es/traduccion/ y http://www.fitispos.com.es/index2.html

Call for ATA Annual Conference Presentation Proposals

Call for ATA Annual Conference Presentation Proposals
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The American Translators Association is now accepting
presentation proposals for ATA's 53rd Annual Conference
in San Diego, California (October 24-27, 2012).

More than 1,800 translators, interpreters, educators, language
services companies, and project managers are expected to
attend this year's Conference. Making a presentation to such
a diverse audience is an excellent strategy to gain widespread
recognition as a leader and expert in your field.

Speaking at an ATA Annual Conference is also a challenging
and rewarding opportunity. A competitive peer-review process,
with an emphasis on relevant topics in the translation and
interpreting communities, is used to select presentations. The
prestige of being accepted--as well as a discount on conference
registration fees--is an unbeatable benefit of presenting.

Submissions are invited from all areas of translation and
interpreting, including finance, law, medicine, literature, media,
science and technology, terminology, independent contracting,
business management, and training/pedagogy. Sessions
may be language specific or general.

Click https://www.atanet.org/conferencesandseminars/proposal.php
to learn more about the proposal process and to access the proposal
form.

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The deadline for submitting a presentation proposal is March 12, 2012.
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The ATA 53rd Annual Conference in now online! Look for hotel details,
registration rates, and a Google calendar reminder to register early and
save. Go to http://www.atanet.org/conf/2012.

Question? Need Info?
Contact Kwana Ingram, Member Relations Manager
Phone: (703) 683-6100, extension 3001
Email: Kwana@atanet.org

Social Inclusion strand

Grupo Alfaqueque, University of Salamanca

(Icíar Alonso, Jesús Baigorri, Concepción Otero and Críspulo Travieso have carried out this project with the cooperation of Poliglotti4.eu, the European Academy of Yuste Foundation and COMUNICA)

Executive summary

Data collection

During the summer of 2011 questionnaires were distributed to nationals from different European countries who work in the field of governmental and non-governmental social services with the aim of finding out certain patterns of perception and behaviour with people experiencing communication difficulties, inter alia: a) frequency of contacts; b) occurrence of communication difficulties; c) solutions applied; d) examples of best practices; e) potential proposals of improvement; and f) impact of those contacts on employees’ approach to multilingualism. The total number of completed questionnaires is 246, a figure that attest to the intensive work of compilation carried out as well as to the descriptive value of the report. Data from the questionnaires were processed with the SPSS statistical programme, which provided the database that allowed the research team to carry out the analytical work. An additional database was created to store the qualitative responses from participants.

Brief description of the results

Over 90 percent of the respondents have direct contact with users of their services. So they speak about their own personal experience. Almost 30% of the respondents declare that their service deals with people who speak foreign languages “very often” or “often” and only in 14% of the cases they declare that they “never” deal with foreign-speaking people. The figures are only of about 11% of “very often” or “often” occurrences when referring to communication disabilities (such as users who are deaf, mute, etc.).

Over 50% of the cases of language related difficulties occur with labour migrants. Fifty-eight percent of the people who seek assistance from public services go accompanied by someone to help them. In over 70% of the cases they go accompanied by a relative (40%+) or a friend (30%+) and only in less that 20% of the cases by a professional interpreter or social worker. Communication problems are solved in 60% of the cases by non-specific staff and only in under 30% of the cases by professional interpreters or by linguistic and cultural mediators.

Only 35% of the services provide users with information in other languages.

The tools they use to solve communication difficulties are in over 40% of the cases pictures or dictionaries and only in 12% of the cases videoconferencing or telephone interpreting services. Only 25% of the respondents say that their service cooperates with other services. And only about 9% of the respondents say that their service has a good practice manual or an established procedure to deal with cases in which a communication problem occurs. The perception by respondents about the level of satisfaction in the solution of communication problems is satisfactory in about 50% of the cases and unsatisfactory in only about 23% of the cases. However 82% of the respondents say that their performance would improve if they were given courses in other languages and in specific techniques.

Some of the main conclusions we can derive from the results are:

• A majority of social services rely on ad hoc solutions to resolve their language communication difficulties.
• Although many respondents declare themselves satisfied with current arrangements, when figures are cross tabulated by the scope of the services, a relatively high level of dissatisfaction emerges in key areas, such as health and legal services. 
•  A great majority of our respondents consider that training in language issues would improve their professional performance.
• The limited use of advanced technologies as tools to facilitate communication in public services, as attested by our respondents, opens enormous opportunities for improvement, potentially involving many actors.

The outcome of this report can be of value for policymakers at different levels (from local to supranational), civil society organisations, teaching institutions in the field of languages (including applied linguistics, translation, interpreting, and socio-cultural mediation), social and political researchers, and the media, among others.