IT 201

Kapiolani Community College

IT 201 ASL/English Simultaneous Interpretation (2)
4 hours lecture per week
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; ASL 202 or equivalent; IT 200; or instructor's consent
Comment: This is an 8-week, modular course.
IT 201 builds on the knowledge and practices gained in IT 200 and focuses on concepts related to simultaneous interpretation. This course introduces the theory, strategies and information necessary to interpret in a simultaneous mode. The depth of processing skills and processing speed needed to clearly produce an equivalent message from one language to another across a variety of registers and situations in this mode are developed through guided practice. Semantics, register, text analysis, process management, “demandcontrol”,
team interpreting, and feedback strategies as they pertain to educational settings and other venues are discussed and practiced.

Upon successful completion of IT 201, the student should be able to:
• Analyze source language texts for content, context, vocabulary, syntax, affect, cultural considerations, and register.
• Demonstrate strategies for finding equivalent messages between the source and target languages.
• Demonstrate on an introductory level the ability to simultaneously interpret messages into the target language on lexical, phrasal, sentential and textual levels.
• Discuss various language models and their simultaneous interpretations in both ASL and English.
• Practice the Process Interpreting Model in a simultaneous mode.
• Diminish the amount of processing time needed to produce a successful consecutive interpretation.
• Apply the appropriate interpreting techniques (comprehension, representation, text analysis, discrimination, cloze, prediction, retrieval, expansion, compression, etc.) required for simultaneous interpretations.
• Discuss and demonstrate when simultaneous interpretation is desirable and appropriate in educational and other settings.
• Discuss the changes in the educational interpreter’s role based on grade level.
• Discuss the "demands" evident in various situations and the "controls" that are available to the interpreter to produce an effective interpretation.
• Participate in individual and small group activities that require simultaneous interpretation strategies.
• Provide structured feedback and evaluations to classmates during small group activities.
• Demonstrate expanded ASL and English vocabularies while working with materials drawn from K-12 classrooms.

	IT 201 ASL/English Simultaneous Interpretation (2) 4 hours lecture per week Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; ASL 202 or equivalent; IT 200; or instructor's consent Comment: This is an 8-week, modular course. IT 201 builds on the knowledge and practices gained in IT 200 and focuses on concepts related to simultaneous interpretation. This course introduces the theory, strategies and information necessary to interpret in a simultaneous mode. The depth of processing skills and processing speed needed to clearly produce an equivalent message from one language to another across a variety of registers and situations in this mode are developed through guided practice. Semantics, register, text analysis, process management, “demandcontrol”, team interpreting, and feedback strategies as they pertain to educational settings and other venues are discussed and practiced. Upon successful completion of IT 201, the student should be able to: • Analyze source language texts for content, context, vocabulary, syntax, affect, cultural considerations, and register. • Demonstrate strategies for finding equivalent messages between the source and target languages. • Demonstrate on an introductory level the ability to simultaneously interpret messages into the target language on lexical, phrasal, sentential and textual levels. • Discuss various language models and their simultaneous interpretations in both ASL and English. • Practice the Process Interpreting Model in a simultaneous mode. • Diminish the amount of processing time needed to produce a successful consecutive interpretation. • Apply the appropriate interpreting techniques (comprehension, representation, text analysis, discrimination, cloze, prediction, retrieval, expansion, compression, etc.) required for simultaneous interpretations. • Discuss and demonstrate when simultaneous interpretation is desirable and appropriate in educational and other settings. • Discuss the changes in the educational interpreter’s role based on grade level. • Discuss the "demands" evident in various situations and the "controls" that are available to the interpreter to produce an effective interpretation. • Participate in individual and small group activities that require simultaneous interpretation strategies. • Provide structured feedback and evaluations to classmates during small group activities. • Demonstrate expanded ASL and English vocabularies while working with materials drawn from K-12 classrooms. Kapi'olani Community College - © 1999, 2000. All Rights Reserved.