Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Simultaneously interpret and transliterate the main points with most of the supporting details of a given source message into the target language.

2. Use self-assessment and peer-assessment skills to increase the linguistic flexibility necessary to match a variety of consumer needs.

3. Describe the logistics, best practices, and special considerations of interpreting in K-12 settings.

4. Adjust an interpretation to match a consumer’s linguistic, cultural, and educational needs.

Students will perform simultaneous interpretations and transliterations on topics common to K-12 settings. Students will discuss and demonstrate best practices for educational interpreting.  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 assignments, in-class performance, quizzes, and formal evaluations of recorded ASL-to-English and English-to-ASL interpretations. Self-assessment and peer-assessments will be used to evaluate student skill development. Students will be assessed on their ability to produce a grammatically correct, simultaneous, meaning-based interpretation of a source message.

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. 
• Interpreting for students with language deprivation.