Project-based learning through simulation : how to run a training session using role-play as a learning tool

Falbo, Caterina (author)

The chapter deals with project-based learning through simulation. In particular, it focuses on how to design, organise, conduct and evaluate simulations of real-life assignments in the classroom in order to make dialogue interpreting training closer to the real world. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first is devoted to a brief review of the literature on role-play as a training tool and to the identification of their potential and limits. In the second section, two main issues are dealt with. The first sub-section concentrates on the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) developed by Stokoe and other strategies that can be used to tackle problems deriving from the fictional nature of role-play. In the second sub-section, all stages – from planning to conducting to evaluating – are considered, taking into account different degrees of complexity reflecting specific training goals. Finally, the last section addresses assessment objectives and methodology, with special attention being paid to the importance of finding ways to involve the whole group of trainees, not just those playing roles, as it is the only way for role-play exercises to be really useful.

• Language: English
• Keywords: role-play, simulation, real-life assignment, dialogue interpreting interaction, didactic tool, assessment, as-text approach, social interactivity perspective, coordination
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 156-174
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125106
• Publication date in RUL: 04.03.2021

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Teacher education for community interpreting and intercultural mediation : selected chapters
• Editors: Nike Kocijančič-Pokorn, Maurizio Viezzi, Tatjana Radanović Felberg
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete = Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts : Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje = National Institute of Public Health
• Year: 2020
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0402
• COBISS.SI-ID: 39104003

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 04.03.2021

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+