Rikkyo University Presents a Masters Program in Translation, by Tony Hartley, Rikkyo University

Taking the Plungewith Translator Education in JapanAcademe/Industry Collaboration

Tony [email protected]

A bridgeable distance …?

Training, goal of ~: optimise the ability to perform on a given task/tool

Education, goal of ~: optimise the ability to evaluate a given task/tool

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specifies 5 translator competencies …

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… to be acquired via 4 routes

… a government certificate of competence

… at least 5 years of documented experience as a professional

… at least 2 years of experience plus a university degree

… a university degree in translation

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How manyJapanese universities offer

translation degrees that

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The local ‘climate’ is tepid …

translation & interpreting studies in Japan are in fair shape

BUT …

shortage of qualified professors

focus on theory rather than practice, and on literary genres

little outreach from professional bodies

distant links with tools providers

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@ Rikkyo we decided to take the initiative

Masters in Intercultural Communicationplus – for students taking courses covering all competencies –

Certificate in Professional Translation

Our reference framework is the European Masters in Translation

… but the climate is warming

sets standards for staff and facilities …

professional experience

research activity and publications

library and IT infrastructure

translation tools

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2009

specifies 6 areas of competence …

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2009

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By design our courses cover all competencies

Let’s focus on technology and service provision

service (experiential) learning –

translation service for the benefit of the Rikkyo University community

… enabled by …

transTech module –

practice, principles and evaluation of core technologies

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TransTech: 3 all-day ‘sandboxes’ at 6-week gapsFa

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n Task-based learning of core function

Pipelining of tools – TM | MT | corpus-creation

Ref

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ion Audit of

usage and resources created

New tools

Principles and limits

Eval

uat

ion Metrics and

techniques

Projects with authentic data

Own performance

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Which toys are currently in the sandbox?

Service Learning: an in-house practicum

exclusively in-house service

co-ordinator (staff) with professional experience

good-practice guidelines for translators and clients

quality expectations managed up-front – no ethical issues

senior students to act as PMs and revisers

incremental growth of TM, termbase and other resources

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Service Learning: international collaboration

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Service learning conference @ rikkyo may 2017 – please join us!

We hope this is only the start …

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encouragement for other Japanese universities to take this path

stronger ties between universities and professional bodies

synergies from academe/industry collaboration

We’re open to new partnerships

And to questions/suggestions …Fire away!