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Struggling Between Aspirations To Innovate And The Tyranny Of Reality, Yong Zhong
Struggling Between Aspirations To Innovate And The Tyranny Of Reality, Yong Zhong
International Journal of Interpreter Education
In this paper, I reflect on over twenty years of teaching interpreting, evolving from a “listen and interpret” teacher to an aspirant for innovation. There are discussions of how I broke out of the comfort zone of notions of “accuracy” and “correct interpretation,” but the focus of the paper is on how a broadened vision enabled me to formulate my own teaching philosophies and on how I am teaching interpreting in an evolved regime. I will also discuss the outcomes of the innovations. As will be shown, there are positive outcomes for the students, the innovator, and the university. But …