TY - BOOK ID - 13971479 TI - Aptitude for Interpreting. AU - Pöchhacker, Franz AU - Liu, Minhua PY - 2014 SN - 9789027269546 9027269548 9789027242563 9027242569 1322205817 PB - Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Aptitudes. KW - Interpreting. KW - Translating and interpreting -- Study and teaching. KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Tolken KW - Study and teaching. KW - talent KW - begaafdheid KW - aanleg KW - beroep KW - aanleg. KW - beroep. KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Study and teaching KW - Talent KW - Begaafdheid KW - Aanleg. KW - Beroep. KW - Interpretation and translation KW - Interpreting and translating KW - Language and languages KW - Literature KW - Translation and interpretation KW - Translating KW - Translators UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13971479 AB - With increasing numbers of students wishing to become conference interpreters, but limited capacities in most university degree programs, accurate admission testing is an important means of predicting an applicant's chances of completing the program successfully. This article focuses on three aptitude tests for simultaneous interpretation: Pöchhacker's SynCloze test; Chabasse's cognitive shadowing test; and Timarová's personalized cloze test. The test battery was administered at the start of the 2009/2010 academic year to students beginning the two-year Master's program in conference interpret ER -