Alya' M.H. Ahmad Al-Rubai'i

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alya' M.H. Ahmad Al-Rubai'i plays a role.

Articles

Al-Rubai'i, Alya' M.H. Ahmad 2009 Instructing novice consecutive interpreters: Steps to improve the performance of memory Babel 55:4, pp. 329–344 | Article

All aspects of human life rely on the most important cognitive ability that man has been endowed with, namely, memory. Some cognitive tasks such as consecutive interpreting put high demands on this powerful ability to the effect that it needs special training to cope with those demands. The… read more

Al-Rubai'i, Alya' M.H. Ahmad 2005 Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Kenneth Hyltenstam (Eds.). Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary Perspective. Babel 51:1, pp. 88–91 | Review

Al-Rubai'i, Alya' M.H. Ahmad 2004 The effect of word order differences on English-into-Arabic simultaneous interpreters’ performance Babel 50:3, pp. 246–266 | Article

Word order differences between English and Arabic represent one of the problems faced by English-into-Arabic simultaneous interpreters. This paper investigates this problem by testing the effect of six problematic English linear arrangements on the accuracy of performance of interpreters in three… read more