Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the differences in interpreting and transliterating.
• Given a source language message, produce an accurate and equivalent simultaneous interpretation or transliteration of the main ideas and most supporting details of the original message.
• Demonstrate an ability to interpret or transliterate in educational settings based on the specific language preferences of the Deaf consumer.

Students will perform simultaneous interpretations and transliterations on topics common to academic settings. Students will discuss and demonstrate best practices for educational interpreting. Students will continue to practice concentration, anticipation, prediction, use of prior knowledge and knowledge and new information, and memory techniques. Students will continue to demonstrate self-assessment and peer-review techniques to further identify patterns in their own skill development.

Students will be evaluated through formal evaluations of ASL-to-English simultaneous interpretations/transliterations and English-to-ASL simultaneous interpretations/transliterations. Students will be expected to complete self-assessments of their own work.

Given a source language message, produce an interpretation of all the main ideas and some supporting details of the message. The interpretation must meet the following criteria:

• Each sentence must be complete and grammatically correct.
• Each sentence must be equivalent to the presenter's message.
• All sentences must be congruent in light of the presenter's intent and the message as a whole. (Gish, S. (1993) Practice Guidelines, used by permission)

This course will cover the following topics:

• Simultaneous interpretation in educational settings.
• Transliteration in educational settings.
• Best practices in K-12 and other educational settings.
• Analysis of context, purpose, and register of both English and ASL discourse in the field of education.