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The formation of interpreters in Cuba has as its main goal to train a professional who is able to mediate among Spanish speakers and not-Spanish speakers in our historic situation. This research article aims to analyze the main backgrounds of interpretation teaching at Universidad de Oriente, taking into account its dynamics and the didactic treatment of the cognitive factors involved in the interpretation process. This enables to deepen into the main characteristics of the process, through a study of short-term memory training and the didactic devices used for its improvement; and establish three main stages in the evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work there is a strategy of socio-cultural intervention for teachers of Socio-cultural Studies in Semidistance learning, as a didactic alternative that permits to systematize in a didactic integrative movement, the resources and stages of socio-cultural intervention in relation with the labour contexts of performance of the socio-cultural manager. This strategy is a useful methodological instrument for the development of a labour socio-cultural performance culture of that professional from the detection, research and intervention of the cultural processes in the contextual diversity in an involved position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the importance of extension activities in the new Cuban universitya totalizing and integrated look is required to boost their formative dimension, through the leading role of the student and his link with the local context to promote a culture preserved and developed in the university campus favorably influencing the sociocultural context. From this perspective, the need for a reinterpretation of the process from the relationships established between the orientation of the culture of extension performance in contexts and the systematization of the basic conditions of the student active participation is identified, as proposed methodological guidelines to promote cultural development in the community context of the process through university extension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]