Lecture: 1 hour/week
Seminar: 2 hours/week
Field expereince: 1 hour/week
- Lecture/seminar
- Small group work
- Guest speakers
- Course readings/video
Course content will be guided by research, empirical knowledge, professional standards and best practice.
Professional interpreters’ work
- Techniques for effective observation
- Skills for interpersonal interacting & questioning
- Reflective journals
Foundational skills for interpreting
- Listening for comprehension
- Speaking for clarity
- Identifying main points in spoken texts
- Discourse mapping
- Multi-tasking while listening and speaking
Ethical decision-making
- Ethical codes
- Demand Control Schema
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze the work of interpreters, based on observation in the field
- Recognize their own personal filters and frame of reference
- Apply techniques learned through observations to one’s own emerging professional practice
- Apply the Demand Control Schema to decision-making as it pertains to the field of interpreting
- Demonstrate pre-interpreting skills including closure techniques, discourse prediction skills, memory and multi-tasking
- Analyze and diagram samples of discourse to determine the main points and supporting detail
- Reconstruct English texts working from a diagram of one’s own design
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Evaluation will be based on a combination of individual and group work, and at the instructor’s discretion may include presentations, written assignments, papers, quizzes and/or exams.
A typical distribution of graded assignments follows:
- Field Research Individual Project, Presentation: 25%
- Field Research Group Project, Presentation: 25%
- Field Research Group Project, Reflection: 10%
- Professional Reflection Journals: 30%
- Professional Accountability: 10%
This is a letter graded course.
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.