Course Title: Interpret as part of a team
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2023
Course Code: LANG5878C
Course Title: Interpret as part of a team
School: 535T Social Care and Health
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5423 - Diploma of Interpreting (Auslan)
Course Contact: Ya-Ping Kuo
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 3771
Course Contact Email: ya-ping.kuo@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 50
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None.
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to interpret in collaboration with one or more other interpreters as part of an interpreting team or in relay, observing each other’s work and providing practical support to achieve effective communication that satisfies professional and industry standards.
This unit applies to those working as interpreters in both consecutive and simultaneous modes, in dialogue or monologue settings and includes team, tandem and relay interpreting. The presence of multiple interpreters confirms this as a complex setting.
This unit will be delivered in a cluster as follows:
Monologue cluster:
LANG5875C Interpret in general monologue settings
LANG5876C Demonstrate routine language proficiency in different subjects and cultural contexts
LANG5878C Interpret as part of a team
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
PSPTIS141 Interpret as part of a team |
Element: |
1. Clarify assignment requirements. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1. Identify and confirm assignment requirements with client, including conditions of engagement, physical work environment and performance expectations. 1.2. Confirm attributes of team, physical work environment and performance expectations with other team members. 1.3. Negotiate agreed approach to achieve best quality and safest outcomes. |
Element: |
2. Prepare as a team. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1. Collaborate as a team to obtain background materials, agree on terminology, and establish interpreting process. 2.2. Analyse physical work environment and collaborate on required adjustments. 2.3. Seek briefing to assess linguistic requirements and address technical concerns. 2.4. Introduce team to discourse participants and explain role and process of interpreting. |
Element: |
3. Undertake team assignment. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1. Implement agreed interpreting process and monitor time. 3.2. Rotate interpreting according to industry standards and in line with situation and established techniques. 3.3. Monitor other team members’ delivery, and prompt and feed, to facilitate and enhance colleague and team performance. 3.4. Accept prompts and feeds in a manner that does not compromise delivery. |
Element: |
4. Evaluate team performance. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1. Discuss performance with team members in a confidential setting. 4.2. Evaluate and note problems encountered and effectiveness of assignment in line with client requirements. 4.3. Consider and implement adjustments to improve future process and outcomes. |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Activities may include comprehension and transfer exercises, note-taking practice, memory retention exercises, role-play exercises, dialogue interpreting exercises using appropriate terminology in English and Auslan, discourse management practice in common domains where Provisional certified interpreters may expect to work in such as education, health, immigration, business, or welfare services.
Teaching Schedule
Please visit Canvas - Syllabus for the weekly teaching schedule.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Assessment will be ongoing during the semester and you will be asked a variety of assessment tasks and activities to assess your level of competence against key performance criteria.
These assessment tasks/activities include, but not limited to, the following:
- Practical demonstrations
- Role plays
- Observation checklists
- Simulated interpreting assignments
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1:
Assessment Task 2:
Assessment Task 3:
Assessment Matrix
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