Abstract (eng)
This master thesis focuses on the social constructivist theory as a possible tool to develop a didactic approach for community interpreting and proposes a model to analyse the language profile of the community interpreting students to achieve a didactic framework for community interpreting.
Firstly, a review is given of the evolution of the interpretation, and the history of both conference and community interpreting are analysed and compared. The aim of it is to pay attention to the different research approaches with which both professions have been perceived. The link between cognitive sciences and conference interpreting as well as between social sciences and community interpreting is made clear in this work. After this review, this master thesis describes the inclusion of both research approaches as a basis for a pedagogy in community interpreting.
The second part of this work looks into the social constructivist principles. This thesis analyses the theory of Vygotsky, the father of social constructivism, and brings it to the translation field through the work of Kiraly and other researchers. The potential of social constructivism for the community interpreting is likewise examined in order to apply this theory to the characteristics of community interpreting.
The concept of language profile of the community interpreting students as a possible tool for a community interpreting pedagogy is discussed further on. This concept is described and widened, firstly through the theoretical foundation and later through the presentation of the results of an experiment about the model of the language profile, which the author carried out on the basis of the analyse of the language profile.
After confirming that community interpreting is in need of a pedagogical framework, and that the social constructivist paradigm and the model of the language profile analyse can contribute to solve this lack, this thesis focuses on the real offer of community interpreting courses nowadays. The aim of it is to observe how the theoretical principles can influence community interpreting courses as well as to see in what way they can be applied to the structure of the courses. Accordingly, this thesis offers an analysis and comparison of four community interpreting courses, which are held in Austria and in Spain.