Course Description:

This eight-module workshop, taught in English and Spanish, covers theory, consecutive interpreting and note-taking skills development, as well as interpretation pitfalls. The second part of the course includes sight translation skill-building techniques and a good amount of practice.  Diversified materials are used to expose students to different settings, namely social services, education, legal, and medical.

Class objectives:

• Interpret proceedings, interviews or medical appointments in the consecutive mode applying advanced note-taking skills.
• Reformulate the source message in the target language to render an idiomatic and natural interpretation
• Use note-taking skills when appropriate
• Interpret in the consecutive mode without note-taking by using:
  • Chunking
  • Narrative prompts
  • Visual prompts
  • Structural and logical prompts
• Perform sight translation of varied materials from English and into Spanish

Modules

Module I – Posture and delivery for consecutive interpreting & Consecutive from memory

Module II – Text analysis & Note-taking

Module III – Reformulation

Module IV – Protocol & digitally assisted consecutive mode

Module V – Sight translation skill building techniques

Module VI – Sight translation skills practice (summarization, active, reading, units of meaning, textual analysis)

Module VII – Interpretation pitfalls

Module VIII – Practice consecutive mode and sight translation