Katedra translatologie

Research interest:

• Psychological aspects of translation and interpreting
• Didactics of translation and interpreting
• Public service translation and interpreting

Courses:

• Simultaneous Interpreting 1 (GE)
• Simultaneous Interpreting 2 (GE)
• Translation of Journalistic Texts (GE)
• Mental Hygiene for Translators and Interpreters
• Introduction to Translation Studies Methodology
• Optional Seminar on Conference Interpreting 1 (GE)
• Optional Seminar on Conference Interpreting 2 (GE)
• Public Service Interpreting
• Translation Analysis and Translation (GE)

Most significant publications:

• Soňa Hodáková : Pracovná pamäť v simultánnom a konzekutívnom tlmočení. 1. vyd. Nitra : UKF, 2021. 142 s. ISBN 978-80-558-1751-4.
• Miroslava Melicherčíková, Soňa Hodáková : Prieniky a odlišnosti v kognitívno-osobnostnom profile a tlmočníckom výkone profesionálov a študentov. Banská Bystrica : Belianum, 2023. 243 s. ISBN 978-80-557-2073-9. DOI 10.24040/2023.9788055720746.
• Soňa Hodáková : Motivational structure and the interpreter’s personality, 2021. In: ed. Pavol Šveda. Changing Paradigms and Approaches in Interpreter Training : Perspectives from Central Europe. New York : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-51891-2, p. 185-208.
• Soňa Hodáková, Emília Perez : Teaching and Learning Translation and Interpreting in the Time of COVID-19: Preparation, Class Content and Activities and Assessment (The Slovak Case), 2022. In: ed. Kanglong Liu, Andrew K. F. Cheung. Translation and Interpreting in the Age of COVID-19 : Corpora and Intercultural Studies, vol 9. Amsterdam : Springer, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-6680-4, p. 269-290.
• Soňa Hodáková, Emília Perez : Personal and interpersonal competence of to-be translators and interpreters during COVID-19 remote learning (students’ perspective), 2022. DOI 10.1075/jial.00023.hod. In: The Journal of Internationalization and Localization. ISSN 2032-6904, roč. 9, č. 2 (2022), s. 120-138.
• Soňa Hodáková : Motivationsstruktur als Prädiktor für die Qualität und Stabilität der Dolmetschleistung bei Studenten. 2020. In: ed. Bohušová, Z., Djovčoš, M., Melicherčíková, M. Interpreter Training – Experience, Ideas, Perspectives/ Dolmetschtraining – Erfahrungen, Ideen, Perspektiven. Wien : Praesens Verlag, 2020. ISBN 978-3-7069-1107-8, s. 137-148.
• Emília Perez, Soňa Hodáková : Translator and interpreter training during the COVID-19 pandemic: Procedural, technical and psychosocial factors in remote training, 2021. DOI 10.51287/cttle20219. In: Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E. Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2021. ISSN 2342-7205, Vol. 8. 2021. p. 276-312.
• Soňa Hodáková : To Be or Not to Be an Interpreter? Should Interpreter’s Training Change the Personality or Subordinate Itself to It?, 2021. In: Translation, Interpreting, and Culture: Old Dogmas, New Approaches. Berlin : Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN 978-3-631-83881-5, p. 243-266.

Significant projects:

• AMIF Mental HEALTH 4 ALL: Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe/MHEALTH4ALL, Európska komisia, fond AMIF. Duration: 2022-2024, national coordinator – leading researcher
• KEGA 010UKF-4/2022 Návrh kolaboratívneho vzdelávania v oblasti PSI na Slovensku: dizajn, implementácia a evaluácia kurzov zameraných na tréning tlmočníkov vo verejnej službe / PSI collaborative training in Slovakia:Design, implementation and evaluation of courses for public service interpreters. Duration: 2022-2024, leading researcher
• VEGA 1/0202/21 Reflexia kognitívnych a osobnostných charakteristík v tlmočníckom výkone študentov PaT a profesionálov v reálnom a virtuálnom prostredí. Duration: 2021-2023, co-researcher
• AKTION Kompetenz – Resilienz – Effizienz. Gemeinsam auf dem Weg zu einem komplexen Profil in der Ausbildung angehender Kommunaldolmetscher*innen [Competence – resilience – efficiency. Together on the way to a complex profile in the training of prospective public service interpreters], Aktion Rakúsko – Slovensko. Duration: 2023 – 2024, national coordinator
• KEGA 038UKF-4/2022 Precedentnosť ako nástroj v testovaní a zdokonaľovaní interkultúrnej kompetencie študentov prekladateľstva/ Precedentness as a Tool in Testing and Improving the Intercultural Competence of Students of Translation Studies. Duration: 2022 – 2024, coresearcher
  
• VEGA Titulkovanie pre nepočujúcich: štandardy a odporúčania. Duration: 2014-2016, co-researcher
• APVV Typológia chýb strojového prekladu do slovenčiny ako flektívneho typu jazyka. Duration: 2015-2016, co-researcher
  

Profile:

Soňa Hodáková is an associate professor in Translation Studies. Her research and publications focus mainly on psychological and cognitive aspects in the interpreting process and on the didactics of translation and interpreting. Her recent research and project activities have focused mainly on the topic of public service interpreting. She is a member of the PSIT and LLD working group of the EMT network. She is the principal investigator of a national project on the training of future public service interpreters entitled Development of collaborative PSI education in Slovakia: design, implementation and evaluation of courses for the training of public service interpreters (KEGA grant agency) and national coordinator of the international projects Mental HEALTH 4 ALL: Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe (AMIF, European Commission) and Competence – Resilience – Efficiency. Together on the way to a complex profile in the training of future community interpreters (Aktion Austria – Slovakia). She is a member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Bridge: Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies. She is also a practicing translator and interpreter.