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I&T Acquisition and Language Acquisition

Hyeyeon Chung 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the area ‘Interpretation &Translation Acquisition’ as a parallel discipline to ‘Language Acquisition’, an established branch of Psycholinguistics. With regard to this “new” area this study aimed to provide answers for the questions including “what makes the interpreters/translators different from untrained multilinguals?” and “how does the system related to increasing I&T competence create professionals?”. To answer these questions, we first tried to prove the existence of I&T competence using recent neurolinguistic findings. As the next step we probed into psychological aspects to describe the I&T competence as a system. This kind of scientific approach should be distinguished from prescriptive theories aimed at improving I&T ‘performance’. All in all, as this paper has introduced, the characteristics of the discipline ‘I&T Acquisition’ should be regarded as interdisciplinary, comprehensive, descriptive and empirical as its parallel area ‘Language Acquisition’.

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