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Non-professional Interpreting and Translation: State of the art and future of an emerging field of research
Edited by Rachele Antonini, Letizia Cirillo, Linda Rossato and Ira Torresi
[Benjamins Translation Library 129] 2017
► pp. 295–314

Chapter 15
Child language brokering in private and public settings

Perspectives from young brokers and their teachers

This paper presents the results of a survey on child language brokering (CLB) conducted in junior high schools of Emilia Romagna (Northern Italy). Two questionnaires were drafted to investigate the perceptions of young brokers and their teachers on CLB-related issues. The responses gathered so far contribute to shed light on the who, where, when, and what of CLB in Italy, and generally confirm the results obtained by previous studies at both national and international levels. A comparison between the two sets of responses reveals brokers’ and teachers’ somehow different attitudes toward CLB, which deserve further investigation.

Keywords: language brokering, junior high schools, attitudes of brokers and teachers
Article outline
  • 1.Aims and method of the study
  • 2.The who, where, when, and what of CLB
  • 3.CLB viewed by young brokers and their teachers
  • 4.Discussion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 June 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.129.15cir
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