The Third WITTA Congress
Translation in Education and Education in Translation
2-5 October, 2020
Venue: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Organizer: School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Co-Organizers: Ministry of Communications and Information;
Confucius Institute, Nanyang Technological University;
Translation and Interpretation Programme, Singapore University of Social Sciences
We are happy to announce that the Third WITTA (World Interpreter and Translator Training Association) Congress will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on October 2-5, 2020. The working languages for the Congress are English and Chinese.
Open to all, the Congress is intended to create a common space for reflection on issues related to translation and interpreting education.
Topics
We invite papers related but not limited to the following areas:
- T&I development in relation to bilingual development
- T&I competence in relation to bilingual competence
- Translation education and bilingual policies
- Methods, approaches, and innovations in T&I and bilingual teaching
- Curriculum development of T&I degree and training programmes
- Curriculum and teaching material development
- Translation trainer education and development
- Quality assessment of translation and bilingual education
- Technologies in T&I and bilingual education
- Continuing education in T&I and institutional support
- Simultaneous machine interpreting
- Machine translation and machine-aided translation
- Reality-integrated translation education
- Low-resource construction of language corpora
Keynote Speakers
Professor Georges L. BASTIN, University of Montreal, Canada; Editor-in-Chief, Meta.
Professor Frans DE LAET, Distinguished Senior Professor, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University; Honorary Professor Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation Beijing Foreign Studies University; Editor-in-Chief, Babel.
Professor
LI Haizhou, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of
Singapore; Chair, the International Speech Communication Association; Research
Director, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),
A*STAR, Singapore.
Professor Lawrence Wang-chi WONG, Chairman,
Professor of Humanities at the
Department of Translation and the Director of the Research Centre for
Translation of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Translation History, Journal of Translation Studies.
Professor ZHAO Junfeng, Director, the Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Vice President of WITTA.
Participation Options
1. to participate in the conference or the workshops by submitting the abstract of a paper and presenting it either orally or by poster (Full paper will be invited for submission for formal publication after the conference);
2. to attend the conference or workshops with no paper presentation but with an interest in participating in discussions.
Schedule
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Key dates
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Events to complete
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31 May, 2020
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Abstracts to be
submitted via EasyChair
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10 June, 2020
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Notification of
acceptance and sending out invitations
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31 July, 2020
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Payment of
early-bird registration fees
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10 Sept, 2020
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Payment of
registration fees
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Abstract Submission
If you intend to attend the conference without submission of an abstract (Participation Option 2), please also register via EasyChair, stating your preference for attending the conference without an abstract.
Registration Fees
- Conference registration fees (inclusive of the Main Conference Workshops) options:
Type of Participant
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Main Conference Early-bird
Registration Fees (before 31 July 2020)
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Main Conference Regular Registration
Fees (before 10 Sept 2020)
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Main Conference At-the-door Registration Fees (2-5 October 2020)
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Pre-Conference Training Workshop and
Other Activities Registration Fee (register by 10 Sept 2020)
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Meals included between 3-5 October
2020
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Regular
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SGD 275
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SGD 330
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SGD 380
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SGD 50
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All tea breaks and three lunches
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Regular
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SGD 345
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SGD 400
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SGD 450
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SGD 50
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All tea breaks, three lunches and a
conference dinner
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Student
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SGD 200
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SGD 230
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SGD 280
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SGD 50
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All tea breaks and three lunches
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Student
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SGD 270
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SGD 300
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SGD 350
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SGD 50
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All tea breaks, three lunches and a
conference dinner
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Contact Us
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Contact Person: Ms. YAP Wei Xian
Conference Email: witta2020@ntu.edu.sg