Open AccessFacebook me!: Initial insights in favour of using social networking as a tool for translator training
Author(s) -
Renée Desjardins
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v10i.283
Subject(s) - trainer , cyberpsychology , collaborative learning , training (meteorology) , psychology , social media , computer mediated communication , computer science , medical education , pedagogy , multimedia , world wide web , the internet , medicine , physics , meteorology , programming language
This paper argues in favour of integrating and using online social networking, more specifically Facebook, within the translation classroom. This has numerous benefits in terms of aptly preparing trainees for the marketplace and also helping to foster a classroom community by encouraging a collaborative learning environment. A descriptive analysis of five undergraduate courses suggests that using online social networking as a teaching strategy has a significant impact: from engaging students through collaborative translation projects, to peer-reviewing assignments, to establishing ‘telepresence’, Facebook allows the trainer to ‘connect’ the classroom.