Faculty of Arts and Sciences
INTERPRETING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
Interpreting will be experienced in 3D virtual environment by Department of English Translation and Interpreting at Izmir University of Economics.
Given voice at 8th International Language, Literature and Stylistics Symposium held in Izmir University of Economics in 2008, the idea of interpreting in 3D virtual environment will be implemented with the support of TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
The TUBITAK Project numbered 114K718 and named “Interpreting and Interpreting Training in Virtual Worlds” which is coordinated byAsst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şahin, faculty member of Department of Translation and Interpretation, has begun on June 01, 2015. Asst. Prof. Dr. Gazihan Alankuş from Izmir University of Economics Department of Computer Engineering and Dr. Şeyda Eraslan from Dokuz Eylul University Department of Translation and Interpretation work as Researchers in the project.
Prof. Dr. Ebru Diriker, the faculty member of Bogazici University Department of Translation Studies who is known for her valuable studies in the field of interpreting takes part in the project as Advisor. Damla Kaleş, Özge Altıntaş, Yasin Sinan Kayacan and Yiğit Can Parıltı who are undergraduate and graduate students also work as bursars within the project.
By using the means of 3D virtual word, the project aims to support a more enriched learning and practice environment by overstepping the space restrictions in the interactive process of interpreting training.
Students of İzmir University of Economics and Dokuz Eylul University will have the opportunity to impact the courses taken within the laboratory and class environment in the virtual campus in Second life, the most popular and biggest 3D virtual World, by studying the practices of conference interpreting. It is expected that the studies within the scope of 2-year-project will add great variety and color to translation and interpreting training, enabling the students to be better equipped when they begin their professional lives.
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