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The Organization of Emergency Calls
In this chapter, I analyse the organization of emergency calls. I describe the overall structural organization (Robinson, Overall structural...
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Teacher Education and Professional Development: Prep** Educators for Emergency Education Through Project-Based Learning and Technology
The education sector in Lebanon was not prepared to address emergency education and online teaching, learning, and assessment with the onset of...
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‘We’ve Been Able to Continue with Our Teaching’: Technology and Pedagogy in Emergency Remote Language Education
In this chapter, four authors who worked together during the first year of the pandemic in a national action research (AR) Program in Australia...
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Interpreter-Mediated Encounters in Complex Humanitarian Settings: Language and Cultural Mediation at Emergency ONG Onlus
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide aid to migrants and refugees involved in humanitarian crises after conflicts must meet language and...
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Strategies That Can Be Adopted to Ensure Ethical Communication Before, During and After Crises and Disasters in Zimbabwe
This chapter interrogates the strategies that can be adopted when communicating during an emergency or crisis as one of the most important elements...
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The Search for a Place
This chapter examines in detail phase 3 of the telephone call: that is, collection of information by the call-taker. In this phase, there are two...
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When There Is a Language Issue
This chapter deals with language difficulties in emergency calls due to the fact that the caller is not a speaker of the call-taker’s language and...
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Turkey: Community Interpreter Training During the COVID-19 Period in Turkey—Practices and Education
Community interpreting in Turkey came to the fore after the devastating earthquakes in 1999, with the arrival of foreign search and rescue teams. The...
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Online Mandarin Language Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 Pandemic at University of Mauritius in Africa
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 on March 18, 2020 in Mauritius, the Confucius Institute at University of Mauritius (CI-UoM) has shifted all...
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Learning Chinese Online in the Age of COVID-19: The Cases of Two Italian Universities
Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, Italian universities courses had to be shifted online, with a severe impact on language courses. This shift involved...
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Aphasia, Sub-Sentential Speeches and Pragmatic Enrichment
This chapter explores various issues about agrammatism, aiming to identify a unifying factor that elucidates the underlying problems of aphasia. Due...
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Teamwork in the Virtual Booth—Conference Interpreters’ Experiences with RSI Platforms
Remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) platforms existed well before the COVID-19 pandemic, but their use skyrocketed when social distancing and...
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Evacuation
In August 2021, everything changed dramatically. With the rapid Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the plight of Afghans left to face the new regime...
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Introduction: Community Translation and Interpreting in Unprecedented Times
COVID-19 moved Translating and Interpreting (T&I) teaching and assessment online in a matter of days in early 2020, stimulating creativity in T&I...
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Reflections on Government Responses and Industry Practice with Regards to the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, governments around the world responded in a variety of different ways in an attempt to curb the spread of...
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Interpreting for Refugees in Hong Kong
In the current state of the world when we are witnessing ever increasing numbers of refugee crises around the globe, the need for professionally...
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South Africa: Interpreter Training at Stellenbosch University During the Pandemic
This chapter provides a chronology of the restriction measures implemented by the South African government during the COVID-19 pandemic and an...
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Australia: Navigating the Pandemic and Exploring New Pedagogical Horizons
The Australian university system relies heavily on international students, and thus the pandemic hit the tertiary education sector hard. However,...
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Keywords
This chapter tackles the task of keyword extraction from corpora. Keywords are extremely helpful to quickly identify the terms (and their associated...
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Assessing the Relevance of Emerging Technologies in Disaster Mitigation and Relief Efforts
Southern Africa, which is the site of the study, has been subjected to several floods in recent years. While there have been some considerable...