- What is professional identity?
process of building up a sense of self in a work-related context
- Why does it matter?
It helps you manage how you are perceived by family, friends, and the general public
- In your own words, what is a language access law?
a set of laws that help ensure equal access to public services by individuals with limited
- Name the most important language access law in the United States.
TITLE VI (protects them from being excluded, denied benefits, or discriminated based on race, color, or national origin).
- List some elements in the professional interpreter’s toolkit.
business cards, professional email, portfolio of credentials, cellphone with professional voice message
- Define legal interpreting.
interpreting related to legal processes and proceedings. You support due process and equal access to justice
- If you don’t know whether an assignment is legal or community interpreting, what do you do?
When in doubt, consider the appointment as legal interpreting and act accordingly.
- If you decide to stay and perform legal interpreting, and you don’t have training for it, how will you handle that situation?
Disclose your limitations. Inform the service provider that you aren’t familiar with the protocols or terminology required, but are willing to help due to immediate need, or until a replacement arrives. Warn parties involved that you may need to interrupt the session in order to ask for clarification. It’s a good idea to also request them to speak clearly, use simple vocabulary, and speak in short segments.
- What other specializations of community interpreting can you name?
- Conference
- freelance
- public sector
- media
- guide
- faith-based
- relay
- remote
- medical
- legal
- What are some strategies for learning new terminology?
? watching/hearing videos on voices academy, keep on improving linguistic knowledge of both languages, study terminology from glossaries by creating flashcards, practice reading documents (sight translation). Work on shifting from short term memory to your long term
- Define remote interpreting and name the two most important kinds of remote interpreting.
interpreting that involves at least one interpreter who is not physically present in the session, and is interpreting using a remote platform. Two most important include via phone or video
- List some of the challenges of performing telephone interpreting compared to in-person (face-to-face) interpreting.
Interpreter can’t read body language of the person receiving the service. There can be easy misinterpretation. Can’t see if there needs to be cultural mediation
