Updated: Assembly Bill 5: What Now?
Get involved in standing up for our profession! Start with this how-to advocacy handout, a step-by-step action plan showing you how to present your case to state lawmakers. The information includes how to find your representatives and sample talking points to use in letters or conversations with legislators.
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Translation and Emotions: Keys for Effective Online Instruction and Collaboration
How do we compensate for the lack of direct human interaction in online training courses? The socio-affective strategies discussed here will help optimize the instructor鈥檚 effectiveness and prepare students for the workplace.
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Creating New Terminology: Do Translators Really Do This?
Technical material is authored to achieve clarity. Therefore, new terms must not be coined randomly. This article will introduce readers to the principles of term formation covered in international standard ISO 704 Terminology Work鈥擯rinciples and Methods.
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Why You Should Care about Terminology Management鈥擡ven if You Never Translate a Single Term
If proactive terminology management before starting a translation is currently not part of your routine, here are some compelling reasons to change your ways.
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A Look at Subtitling and Closed-Captioning Software
What should you be looking for in audiovisual software? After looking at what鈥檚 come before, we鈥檒l review some of the features that are a must for translators working with subtitling and closed-captioning software.
Read MoreNew Certified Members
Congratulations! The following members have successfully passed ATA鈥檚 certification exam: English into Spanish Gloria Hughes Bakersfield, CA Beatriz D. Mendoza Jacobo Aurora, IL Natalia…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The 兔子先生鈥檚 Board of Directors met February 8鈥9, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. The…
Read MoreFrom the President: Advocacy and Other Business
From the President Ted R. Wozniak president@atanet.org As I conclude the third month of my term as president, I find myself spending a lot…
Read MoreBoston, Here We Come!
From the President-Elect Madalena S谩nchez Zampaulo madalena@accessibletranslations.com Twitter: @mszampaulo Planning is in full swing for ATA鈥檚 61st Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, set to…
Read MoreATA at 鈥淧rotect Translators. Protect Interpreters. Protect the World.鈥: A Panel Discussion at the United Nations
On December 11, 2019, the Permanent Missions of Spain and the Republic of Fiji to the United Nations, together with the United Nations Department…
Read MoreVicarious Trauma and Interpreters
(The following was originally published on the blog of ATA鈥檚 Interpreters Division, www.ata-divisions.org/ID/blog.) The first time I heard of interpreters experiencing vicarious trauma was…
Read MoreTalking with the Developer of GT4T
Dallas Cao is the developer of GT4T1, a little, unobtrusive application that allows you to connect from any Windows or Mac application to a…
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