Interpreters – experts in careful listening and efficient encoding? Findings of a prose recall test

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 194-212

  Hiltunen, Sinikka ^a   Vik, Gun Viol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Careful listening; consecutive interpreter; foreign language teacher; prose recall; simultaneous interpreter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015200018     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006915610657     Document Type: Article

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