Training T&I Teachers and Researchers:
An Exploratory Study of Translation Programs
in Hong Kong

Defeng Li
Dept of Translation
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Globalization and advances in modern technology have led to expansion of translation and interpretation (T&I) programs at postgraduate as well as undergraduate levels. Particularly, there seems to have been an increase in the number of programs offering research degrees in translation and interpretation, both M. Phils and PhDs, over the last decade, and the number of research students in such programs has increased too. But how such programs are meeting their needs is very much unknown and it is yet for us to find out how they might be improved to better train the future contingence of translation educators and researchers. This study is therefore to address this issue, through a qualitative case study of the needs of T&I research students in Hong Kong tertiary institutions. What can be done to enable T&I research programs to better meet students’ needs will be the focus of the study.