Serve and Learn! Creating a Service-Learning Course for the Translation and Interpreting Classrooms
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Service-learning has been shown to be an important pedagogical tool that benefits college level students, faculty, participating educational institutions, as well as the Non-Profit and Community Outreach Programs where service-learning projects take place. Although Social Work, Sociology and Political Science Departments carry out many of the service-learning projects, the model could be incorporated more often to translation and interpreting courses. The service-learning component incorporated to the courses SPAN 3340, Introduction to Translation, and SPAN 3341 Business and Legal Translation at the University of Texas at Arlington during the Spring 2014, provided a unique learning opportunity for the students and faculty involved. The incorporation of service-learning to translation and interpreting courses helped our students better understand the relevance of their academic coursework and increase their appreciation for social issues. The Non-Profit Program selected benefited by getting help from students who were eager to contribute to their community. Faculty benefited by finding ways to innovate their teaching and research. The educational institution benefited by fulfilling their mission of service and collaboration with a community, breaking away from the “ivory tower” image. This article describes the benefits of incorporating service-learning to translation and interpreting courses and discusses a service-learning project developed for such courses.
Author: Marko Miletich
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1963552018