Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in Interpreting Students: Possibilities and Perspectives
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Jun 13, 2024
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emotion, emotional intelligence, interpreting, enhancement, skills
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Being defined as a concept which entails awareness of one’s own and other people’s emotions and ability to manage those emotions as well as to interpret them in various interpersonal engagements (Goleman, 1998), emotional intelligence (EI) is found to correlate with academic performance, especially with professions with an affective component, including translation and interpreting (Bontempo, 2009; Hubscher-Davidson, 2007). Relying on the results received from the bilateral project “Possibilities for Enhancing Emotional Intelligence as a Generic Competence in Translation and Interpreting Students” (Popovska et al. 2019: 263–276), this paper aims at exploring the possibilities for EI skills enhancement in interpreting students with a view to raising the awareness of the benefits of EI for both teachers and students and adopting new perspectives on career advancement. The results show that the development of EI skills in interpreting students is very important and provides an opportunity for teachers to gain an invaluable insight into the professional development of students and to get inspired to be more creative in improving teaching methodology.
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Gjurchevska Atanasovska, Katarina, and Nikolche Mickoski. 2024. “Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in Interpreting Students: Possibilities and Perspectives”. Journal of Contemporary Philology 7 (1), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP2471071gja.
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Moderates the Relationship between Stress and Mental Health. Personality and Individual
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Hubscher-Davidson, S.. (2007). An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Personality
on the Performance of French to English Student Translators. Doctoral thesis, unpublished.
Bath: University of Bath.
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Intelligence: Scale Development and Relationship to Team Process Effectiveness and Goal Focus.
Human Resource Management Review. 12 (2): 195–214.
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Impact of Emotional and General Intelligence on Individual Performance. Journal of Social
Psychology. 142 (1): 133–143.
Lee, J. and Buzo, A. (2009). Community language interpreting: A Workbook. Federation Press.
Mavroveli, S. and Sánchez-Ruiz, M. J. (2011). Trait Emotional Intelligence Influences on Academic Achievement and School Behaviour. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 81 (1): 112–134.
Mikolajczak, M., Nelis, D., Hansenne, M. and Quoidbach, J. (2008). If You Can Regulate
Sadness, You Can Probably Regulate Shame: Associations Between Trait Emotional Intelligence,
Emotion Regulation and Coping Efficiency across Discrete Emotions. Personality and Individual
Differences. 44 (6): 1356–1368.
Mikolajczak, M., Roy, E., Verstrynge, V. and Luminet, O. (2009). An Exploration of
the Moderating Effect of Trait Emotional Intelligence on Memory and Attention in Neutral and
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Trait Emotional Intelligence in Academic Performance and Deviant Behaviour at School.
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Theory in the Domain of Academic Achievement. British Journal of Educational Psychology.
81: 97–111.
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Sánchez-Ruiz, M. J., Pérez-Gonzáles, J. C. and Petrides, K. V. (2010). Trait Emotional Intelligence Profiles of Students from Different University Faculties. Australian Journal of Psychology. 62 (1): 51–57.
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CILT. (2007) Translation. National Occupational Standards in Translation 2007. Available from:
https://fs.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/8304001/Translation.pdf [Accessed: January 2021]
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https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2018-02/emt_competence_fwk_2017_en_web.pdf [Accessed: January 2021]
NHS. Leadership Toolkit (EI) Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. Available from:
https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/26776/1/Emotional_intelligence_questionnaire-LAL1.pdf [Accessed: January 2021]
Personality quizzes. Free DISC Personality Tests. Available from:
https://www.personality-quizzes.com/disc?gad_source=1 [Accessed: January 2021]
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