Online training in legal translation

Abstract

In 2010 the first fully online Masters Degree on Translation and Interpreting in the USA was launched, and it included Legal Translation as a subject. The authors of this paper were in charge of designing the contents of this subject, creating the didactic materials to be used and actually teaching the subject. In this paper the authors explain how the curriculum was designed, the criteria developed to create the didactic materials and how it actually worked in a very specific context as is the University of Texas at Brownsville, set next to the border between Mexico and the USA, where most of the students are bilingual and have a background of Mexican and American cultures which create an unique environment of legal cultures mediation.

Online Model for Teaching and Learning the Specialized Translation

“…He is not asked to provide a paper version or a floppy disk with a translated text on it; he is not asked to send the translation file by e-mail. His activities are in an online environment (Bestué & Orozco, 2016;Choi, Kim, Ullah, & Kang, 2016): translator can get a PDF file with Excel tables and footnotes at the bottom of the page in a Word document. He will have to combine all this information in a translated text and to post it on the website in a specified format (Munday, 2016).…”