
New Approaches to Interpreter Education
ISBN-13: 9781563682971 Publisher: Gallaudet University Press Publication date: 10/15/2006 Series: The Interpreter Education Series , #3 Edition description: 1ST Pages: 148 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) The Third Volume in the Interpreter Education SeriesThe latest addition to the Interpreter Education series expands the tools available to instructors with six new, vital chapters on new curricula and creative teaching methods. Series editor Cynthia B. Roy leads the way by calling for the use of a discourse-oriented curriculum for educating interpreters. In the following chapter, Claudia Angelelli outlines the bottom-line principles for teaching effective health-care interpreting, postulating a model that depends upon the development of skills in six critical areas: cognitive-processing, interpersonal, linguistics, professional, setting-specific, and sociocultural. Risa Shaw, Steven D. Collins, and Melanie Metzger collaborate on describing the process for establishing