John Kearns has worked for several years as a translator trainer in Poland. He is currently engaged in research at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association and is the editor of the monthly ITIA Bulletin.

• Introduction; 1. Professionalization and Intervention, Candace Seguinot, (York University, USA); 2. Teaching Interpreting and Interpreting Teaching: A Conference Interpreter's Overview on Second Language Acquisition, Alessandro Zannirato (John Hopkins University, USA); 3. Training Editors in Universities: Considerations, Challenges and Strategies, Haidee Kruger (North-West University, USA); 4. Mobility Programmes as a Learning Experience for Translation Students: Development and Assessment of Specific Translations and Transferable Generic Compentences in Study Abroad Contexts, Dorothy Kelly (University of Granada, Spain); 5. Systematic Assessment of Translator Competence: In Search of Achilles' Heel, Catherine Way (University of Granada, Spain); 6. First Results of a Translation Competence Experiment: 'Knowledge of Translation' and 'Efficacy of the Translation Process', PACTE Group; 7. SLIP - A Toll of the Trade Married to an Educational Space: Making BSL Dictionaries, Christine W. L. Wilson (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) and Rita McDade (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland); 8. Fan Translation Networks: An Accidental Translator Training Environment, Minako O'Hagan (Dublin City University, Ireland); 9. The Academic and the Vocational in Translator Education, John Kearns ((Dublin City University, Ireland).; Bibliography; Index.

This comprehensive volume comprises a number of excellent contributions on a variety of quite specific but always exemplary topics related to translator education, sandwiched between highly thought-provoking seminal chapters by Kearns and Séguinot. This is a compilation of first-rate scholarly work in translation studies by both well-established and up-and-coming researchers. The panoply of innovative research methods introduced and the disparate yet smoothly interwoven facets of translation studies discussed make this volume an indispensable compendium for anyone interested in state-of-the-art research in translator education