When you are a student in the MCI, you lead a very active life. Of course, the classes keep you hopping. Both our Year One and Year Two students are feeling the crunch of a heavy workload as we exit mid-term and go careening now towards the end of the semester. But there are also […]
Want to up your game as an interpreter? And try your hand at long consecutive and evensimultaneous interpreting? We have just the thing for you. On Sunday, November 9, the MCI will be holding another Open House. During past events, we heard from you loud and clear. You want a hands-on opportunity to actually learn […]
In 2008, I asked myself a question that took six years to answer. I received a phone call from the Principal of Glendon College. He was calling to make me a job offer. He asked me to quit my job as a staff conference interpreter with the Government of Canada, to leave Ottawa and resettle […]
One of the classes I’m teaching in the MCI this term is Documentation and Professional Practice. I think it may just be my favourite. It’s a fast-paced linguistic free-for-all that hurtles along like a bullet train with all languages blazing. It’s also a load of fun. This week in DPP, we ran our first mock […]
I’m just back from a whirlwind trip to Washington, DC. While there, I had the opportunity to meet with representatives of the language services from many international organizations. I was also able to connect with my counterparts at several different universities in North America. In my informal conversations with colleagues, I heard a story being […]
Several years ago, I heard Barbara Moser-Mercer ask this question. Well, actually, she asked whether interpreter training programs are producing artisans or virtuosos. Her query was based on a couple of ideas. First, many of us who train interpreters might describe our work this way: we are trying to find ways to help students travel […]
Both online and onsite, classes got into full swing this week at the MCI. After some initial time spent organizing and doing some asynchronous activities, the new Year One students had their first real-time class meets. As for the Year Two students, they got down to brass tacks with some serious booth time. Some of […]
This week, I’m only adding the shortest of blog posts. That’s because I want to give centre stage to our two new full-time faculty members at the MCI! Starting this year, there will be three of us onsite at Glendon on a full-time basis. I will be joined by my Mandarin-booth colleague Emma Zhang, and […]
In last week’s post, I outlined some of the key components of self-directed practice. I argued that interpreter trainees need to take charge of their own development by scheduling regular, structured training sessions for themselves. Here’s the second half of the blog post — it contains the remaining features of training that all future professionals […]
The new school year is just about upon us. In a little over a week, classes will begin again! Here at Glendon, we’re looking very much forward to welcoming a brand new cohort of students to online classes in Year One. We’re equally thrilled to see familiar faces face-to-face in Year Two. In no time […]
