Sign Language Interpreting and Interpreter Education Directions for Research and Practice
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.04.2005
Herausgeber
Marschark Marc + weitereVerlag
Oxford University PressSeitenzahl
324
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16,1/2,2 cm
Gewicht
721 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-517694-0
in educational programs and their access to public and private services. However, there is less than half the number of interpreters needed to meet the demand, interpreting quality is often variable, and there is a considerable lack of knowledge of factors that contribute to successful
interpreting. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that a study by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) found that 70% of the deaf individuals are dissatisfied with interpreting quality. Because recent legislation in the United States and elsewhere has mandated access to educational,
employment, and other contexts for deaf individuals and others with hearing disabilities, there is an increasing need for quality sign language interpreting. It is in education, however, that the need is most pressing, particularly because more than 75% of deaf students now attend regular schools
(rather than schools for the deaf), where teachers and classmates are unable to sign for themselves. In the more than 100 interpreter training programs in the U.S. alone, there are a variety of educational models, but little empirical information on how to evaluate them or determine their
appropriateness in different interpreting and interpreter education-covering what we know, what we do not know, and what we should know. Several volumes have covered interpreting and interpreter education, there are even some publisheddissertations that have included a single research study, and a
few books have attempted to offer methods for professional interpreters or interpreter educators with nods to existing research. This is the first volume that synthesizes existing work and provides a coherent pi
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