Current trends in translation teaching and learning, Volume 4

Preface
This is the fourth volume of Current Trends in Translation
Teaching and Learning. The goal is to present a forum for
publishing up-to-date articles focusing on translation education.
Online collaboration between scholars interested in this theme
makes the publication of such a volume possible.
This volume has been in the making for the past year and puts
forward articles that focus on many of the current themes in
teaching and learning translation. The first article in this volume
by Lucía Aranda addresses teaching Spanish-English Translation
at the University of Hawaii. Performance Criteria Descriptors for
Cognitive Processing Skills Used in Sight Translation are dealt
within the article by Brad Paez from RMIT University in
Melbourne. The pejorative aspect of the English negative prefix
non- is dealt with by Sari Mäittälä-Kauppila of the University of
Helsinki . Stefanie Wimmer of the Autonomous University of
Barcelona discusses an empirical study on risk reduction in
training for specialized inverse translation.2
After a double blind review process, selected papers from the
conference were published in this volume. There is also a
companion website located at: http://www.cttl.org/index.html. I
would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the following
individuals: the writers for submitting their contributions to a blind
review process, because without their courage and effort an edited
collection like this would not be possible; the members of the
editorial review board for their thoughtful and timely reviews.
I would also like to thank Veera Henriksson and Jani Ruotsalainen
from the University of Helsinki for their editorial assistance, Heidi
Routu from Aalto University for speed reviews, the University of
Helsinki Department of Modern Languages English Section for a
bonus-fund grant and Pertti Hietaranta from the University of
Helsinki for securing additional funding for publication. I hope the
readers will find reading Current Trends in Translation Teaching
and Learning Volume 4 both interesting and rewarding.
Mikel Garant