Karen Bontempo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Bontempo plays a role.
Articles
2014 Evaluating emotional stability as a predictor of interpreter competence and aptitude for interpreting Aptitude for Interpreting, Pöchhacker, Franz and Minhua Liu (eds.), pp. 87–106 | Article
This paper proposes that variance in interpreter performance is dependent on factors of both general cognitive ability and personality. Whilst there is no doubt of the interplay between individual personality traits and job performance across many occupations, the greatest interest lies in… read more
2011 Evaluating emotional stability as a predictor of interpreter competence and aptitude for interpreting Aptitude for Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 85–105 | Article
This paper proposes that variance in interpreter performance is dependent on factors of both general cognitive ability and personality. Whilst there is no doubt of the interplay between individual personality traits and job performance across many occupations, the greatest interest lies in… read more
2009 Getting it right from the start: Program admission testing of signed language interpreters Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies: A call for dialogue between research and practice, Angelelli, Claudia V. and Holly E. Jacobson (eds.), pp. 247–295 | Article