EMCI Training of Trainers Seminar

On 8-9 February EMCI organized a Training of Trainers seminar in Budapest. The seminar was devoted to the making of speeches for interpreter training. SCIT was represented by its younger generation of trainers – Anastasia Gavrilina and Sergey Leonov. The seminar participants discussed the rules of speech composition for trainers as well as the issues related to the speeches composed by students for their fellow-trainees. Special attention was paid to mock-conferences, and the participants discussed their place in the curriculum, frequency, topical focus, type of interpreting exercise (simultaneous or consecutive), and the kind of speakers involved (if they should be trainers, students, invited speakers, recorded speeches, native speakers or teachers from other departments). The SCIT trainers actively shared their experiences and learned from their colleagues.