Trust the Process: Improving Translator Training Workshops (Morgan 2024)

A new article in Journal of Translation 20.2 (2024) is now available to download and read for free:

Morgan, Paul Franklin. 2024. “Trust the Process: Improving Translator Training Workshops.” Journal of Translation 20 (2): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.54395/JOT-PM77P.

Abstract

This practical paper aims to apply the advances in pedagogical principles of translator training to the overall conception and evaluation of translator training workshops, which form the core training environment for many Bible translators in Africa. Beginning with the essential principles as elaborated by Ernst-Kurdi (2017), namely, that translator training should be process-centered, participatory and collaborative, authentic, focused on priorities, and objectively evaluated, the author considers how these principles shape the development of the curriculum and the accountability structures of the training program. By reorienting training and evaluation around the processes of translation, and by implementing a social learning and accountability structure, workshops can become more effective.