Developing an analytic scale for assessing undergraduate students' consecutive interpreting performances

Interpreting

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 226-254

  Lee, Sang Bin ^a  

^a Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Assessment; Consecutive interpreting; Criteria; Korean; Rating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940999279     PISSN: 13846647     EISSN: 1569982X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/intp.17.2.04lee     Document Type: Review

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