
Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters
ISBN-13: 9781563683206 Publisher: Gallaudet University Press Publication date: 06/15/2005 Series: Interpreter Education , #2 Edition description: First Edition Pages: 232 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) Picking up where Innovative Practices in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters left off, this new collection presents the best new interpreter teaching techniques proven in action by the eminent contributors assembled here. In the first chapter, Dennis Cokely discusses revising curricula in the new century based upon experiences at Northeastern University. Jeffrey E. Davis delineates how to teach observation techniques to interpreters, while Elizabeth Winston and Christine Monikowski suggest how discourse mapping can be considered the Global Positioning System of translation.In other chapters, Laurie Swabey proposes ways to handle the challenge of referring expressions for interpreting students, and Melanie Metzger describes how to learn and recognize what interpreters do