Skill acquisition in interpreting: A human performance perspective

Interpreter and Translator Trainer

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-28

  Moser Merceer, Barbar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive expertise; Collaborative learning; Human performance psychology; Interpreting; Virtual learning environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950707480     PISSN: 1750399X     EISSN: 17570417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1750399x.2008.10798764     Document Type: Article

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