This editorial presents and discusses in the framework of the international literature the research subjects dealt with in the papers which make up issue n. 2 of A Tradire, a new online journal of Rennes 2 University. The aspects addressed concern:
- basic and non-professional training in DI within BA courses in which such training runs parallel to the teaching of French as a foreign language;
- the approach to training based on a stage play analysis that highlights interactional aspects;
- the recourse to role-plays within a broader approach that also takes into account the examination of interpreter-mediated interactions by means of the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method and the analysis of the literature in a professionalising perspective;
- raising students' awareness of the interactional aspects characterising highly sensitive contexts.
