Language direction and source text complexity: Effects on trainee performance in simultaneous interpreting

Unity in Diversity: Current Trends in Translation Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 177-186

  Tommola, Jorma ^a   Heleva, Marketta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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