Effective Practice for Skill Improvement

Dr. Rachel Herring, a spoken language interpreter and interpreter educator, has a special interest in fostering effective practice for developing interpreting skills.  In this 20 minute video, she shares some critical elements to consider when approaching your professional development.

Critical Theme

We want to highlight one theme that comes up in the research, as well as in feedback from 2018 GTC participants. To improve as novice interpreters, […]

2022-01-23T19:19:25-06:00January 23rd, 2019|

Building toward Sight Translation – Trilingual

A woman with dark black long hair and a black shirt and a man with light blue shirt and glasses sitting at a table Developed by Arlene Narvaez

Competencies Addressed:

  • Interpreting Practice: Sight Translation
  • Cultural competency
  • Trilingual (ASL, Spanish, English)

Time Required for Activity: 60 mins

Objective: 

  • Define sight translation
  • Identify key vocabulary terms used in educational settings
  • Identify acceptable translation of key terms

In this […]

2022-01-23T19:52:54-06:00December 3rd, 2018|

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 3)

A woman with light brown skin and dark brown long hair wearing a grey suit coat stands in front of a light grey background and speaks. Developed by ASL Flurry 

Competencies Addressed:

  • message coherence
  • depiction in ASL
  • Use of Classifiers
    • semantic classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.2)
    • descriptive classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument […]
2022-01-23T19:57:43-06:00December 3rd, 2018|

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 2)

Developed by ASL Flurry A woman with light brown skin and dark brown long hair wearing a grey suit coat stands in front of a light grey background and speaks.

Competencies Addressed:

  • message coherence
  • depiction in ASL
  • Use of Classifiers
    • semantic classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.2)
    • descriptive classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument […]
2022-02-14T16:35:38-06:00December 3rd, 2018|

Simultaneous Interpreting: Bullet-Proof Backpacks (Part 1)

A woman with light brown skin and dark brown long hair wearing a grey suit coat stands in front of a light grey background and speaks. Developed by ASL Flurry 

Competencies Addressed:

  • message coherence
  • depiction in ASL
  • Use of Classifiers
    • semantic classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.2)
    • descriptive classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.3)
    • locative classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.4)
    • body and body part classifiers (Taylor, 2017: 4.5)
    • instrument […]
2022-11-29T09:10:39-06:00December 3rd, 2018|
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