APG5885 Specialised interpreting

The unit specialises in two important areas of interpreting practice: the legal and health fields. Content knowledge and specialist language are acquired that relate to the contexts of both fields. These skills are applied in class activities through practice interactions with police, lawyers, judiciary staff and other court-room interlocutors, and with doctors, general health and mental health specialists, and patients. This unit builds on the acquisition of dialogue interpreting and on the development and reinforcement of skills and techniques needed for consecutive interpreting. Further training in note-taking, including the use of digital pen technology, will be undertaken. Sight translation is introduced as a new skill at the beginning of this unit. In the second half of this unit, simultaneous interpreting is introduced. All four skills: dialogue, longer consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, and sight translation are used in simulated interactions. Interactional approaches to interpreting are presented as are theoretical concepts relating to health and legal interpreting as emerging research fields.