Objective: The study investigated how healthcare personnel communicate with families when experiencing language barriers, and the use of interpreters in Nordic paediatric oncology care.Methods: A cross-sectional multicentre survey study with registered nurses (RNs) and medical doctors (MDs) at 20 Nordic paediatric oncology centres. The “Communication over Language Barriers questionnaire” (CoLB-q) was used in the respective Nordic languages. Descriptive analysis and non-parametric tests were used to summarize and compare data.Results: A total of 489 RNs and MDs completed the survey (response rate of 55 %). Although most respondents reported often or sometimes caring for families with limited proficiency in the country's majority languages, only 20 % had received education in how to use an interpreter. When communicating without an interpreter both professions had used relatives and children as language brokers to some extent. Most respondents assessed that the use of interpreters increased families' participation and improved their care relationships with the families. MDs used interpreters more often than RNs, who in turn used children as language brokers more frequently than the MDs did.Conclusion: Although most respondents believed that a professional interpreter increases patients' and families' participation and safety in care, children were used as language brokers by both professions. Few had received education or training on how to use an interpreter despite that most participants often met families with limited proficiency in the country's majority language.Innovation: This study highlights a critical gap and underscores the necessity for healthcare personnel to receive education and training on utilizing professional interpreter resources.

Building on the foundations of Roderick Jones’ authoritative and popular text, this brand-new textbook is a comprehensive, up-to-date and easily accessible introduction to conference interpreting. Elisabet Tiselius combines practical approaches and their theoretical underpinnings to guide beginning students. The text links exercises to the theory behind them, from early theories to modern understandings of the demands of conference interpreting.This guide includes invaluable material on freelancing and professional development. Tiselius integrates remote interpreting and computer-aided interpreting throughout the book. The volume also includes a range of exercises from self-assessment, speech-writing, and note-taking to consecutive and simultaneous. Theoretical concepts are illustrated with anecdotes from Elisabet Tiselius’ personal experience, taking readers behind the scenes of conference interpreter education, and equipping them with the tools to understand how to practise and why different exercises are necessary.

This chapter describes the method of cued retrospection and how to implement it into research designs. Cued retrospection orginated in psychology and has been used in interpreting studies since the mid 1990s. It is based on the participants’ own recollection of the processes of tasks collected immediately after those tasks. The chapter reviews the method and its key concepts, the state of the art, and ethical issues of data collection using cued retrospection. We also describe how it has been used in CTIS research and which tools can be applied for the efficient collection and analysis of cued retrospection data. Finally, we discuss some challenges of employing cued retrospection.

The last special issue of Target focusing on cognitive aspects of translation was published in 2013 (25:1) and edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich, and Sharon O’Brien. More than a decade later, we are pleased to revisit this field of research with a new special issue as it presents us with the possibility of observing and highlighting continuities within the field as well as taking stock of some theoretical and methodological developments.Many of the topics and focuses in the current special issue were foreshadowed in 2013. For example, Hanna Risku and Florian Windhager’s (2013)   launch of the notion of ‘Extended Translation’, which puts a spotlight on the interdependence of action, social and material environment, interaction, and cognition, has gained momentum. In the current issue, the socio-cognitive theoretical perspective is reflected in Álvaro Marín Garcia’s approach to modelling cognition in Multilectal Mediated Communication (MMC). Further, Juliane House (2013)   called for a linguistic-cognitive orientation in Translation Studies which could be employed to examine the processes of comprehension and re-verbalization in the translator’s mind. Her call is echoed in Rhona Amos and Martin J. Pickering’s examination of language processing during simultaneous interpreting using insights from psycholinguistic studies. Finally, Inger M. Mees, Barbara Dragsted, Inge Gorm Hansen, and Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (2013)   presaged the professional importance of adopting new technological advances and learning hybrid practices, with an examination of oral translation with speech recognition. In the current issue, Elena Davitti and Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo follow in this vein by studying upskilling in interlingual respeaking and the cognitive and interpersonal factors that influence success.

Utgångspunkten i den här artikeln är Ozolins (2000,2010) kartläggning och ramverk för länders sätt att möta tolkbehov, där Sverige placerar sig i skaran av länder med stort statligt engagemang.Engagemanget visar sig exempelvis genomen bejakande lagstiftning och statligt finansierade tolkutbildningar för att tillgodose behovet av tolkservice. I denna artikel beskrivs varför tolkprofessionerna har kommit olika långt, och befinner sig på olika ställen, i professionaliseringsprocessen, och att processen inte innebär en linjär utan snarare är en böljande process som påverkas av kontextuella faktorer. Ozolins ramverk används som utgångspunkt i beskrivningen av den svenska kontexten, men differentieras genom att särskilja mellan de tre vanligaste tolkprofessionerna: konferenstolkning, teckenspråkstolkning och tolkning i offentlig sektor. Tolkprofessionernas skilda historiska utvecklingsprocesser är viktiga att känna till för att förstå tolkfältet i Sverige idag. Särskiljandet av tolkprofessionerna möjliggör också en mer precis beskrivning av faktorer som påverkat och påverkar professionernas utveckling.Några faktorer av särskild vikt som dominerar den aktuella diskursen om tolkning är de nya politiska vindarna och den tekniska utvecklingen. De är exempel på faktorer, som trots den statliga involveringen i Sverige och en bejakande lagstiftning, kan bidra till att bromsa, och i vissa fall även urholka, tolkyrkenas pågående professionaliseringsprocesser.