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Consecutive Interpreting
ASL3350

I am not scheduled to teach ASL3350: Consecutive Interpreting this semester.

Please note: All information currently available on this ASL3350 site represents work and due dates relevant to the Fall 2011 semester. Please check back during later semesters for updated information on this course. Thank you.

News & Announcements

29 August 2011 Welcome back, sports fans. It’s consecutive interpreting time. This is going to be a challenging semester. Will need your cooperation and patience. And moxy.

25 August 2010 The new class site is up and running, including a link to the new online classroom we’re using this semester (ning.com has been retired). Let me know if there are any problems. Also, kudos to those who passed their certification tests this summer!

22 December 2009 ASL3350 has concluded for the Fall 2009 semester. Thanks to the guinea pigs this semester; your feedback has been invaluable. Congratulations to those who passed the state and NIC written exams this fall.

26 August 2009 The class site is up now; we’ll go over this in class. Also available now is the online classroom where your written and video assignments should be posted. Any questions? Email me.

29 July 2009 Congratulations to all those (five? six? seven?) who passed the Utah State written, performance, and NIC written exams this summer. You bring honor to us all. The class schedule has been partially updated for Fall 2009 semester.

22 December 2008 ASL3350 has concluded for the Fall 2008 semester. Thanks to all of the students in the Fall 2008 course; we had a good time. Best of luck to those students taking the Written Test in December and January, and congratulations to those who passed the NIC Written Test this semester.

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About This Course

This course is an introduction to consecutive sign language interpreting theory and practice between Deaf and nondeaf people. Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate they can:

  1. describe and evaluate the academic and theoretical contributions of significant educators and practitioners in the interpreting field (Cokely, Colonomos, Patrie, Witter-Merrithew, Taylor, Dean & Pollard, et al.), including a practical application of non-judgemental language
  2. identify and incorporate a best-practice taxonomy of competencies and processes required to produce consecutive interpretations
  3. demonstrate and self-monitor basic abilities required to create consecutive interpretations of rehearsed and/or spontaneous texts:
    • understand how principles of the Demand-Control Schema (DC-S) can undergird ethical and best-practice interpreting decisions
    • increase competent usage of source language (sL) and target language (tL) (Cokely)
    • recognize a typology of interpretation miscues (Cokely, Gonzalez) and monitor their manifestation in interpretations
    • describe and apply the cognitive tasks of pegging, chunking, linking, and monitoring to understand a discourse
    • organize and map (Witter-Merrithew, Monkowski & Winston) both distinctive and discrete units of information for an interpretation
    • reformulate both abstract and concrete message parts (Patrie, Colonomos) of a discourse into a consecutive interpretation
  4. identify impacts on and incorporation of semantic choice, register, and ethical behavioral decisions in consecutive interpretations

A significant portion of this course requires self-directed efforts (asychronously working with other teammates) and fairly good command of web-based technologies and learning environments (video creation, salient discussion and reporting skills; we’ll discuss this more in class).

This course requires a one-hour per week lab criteria; expect to spend at least an hour a week on skill building exercises in a language laboratory setting.

Note: All downloadable files—class notes, syllabi, and other handouts—are saved in PDF formats and require Adobe Acrobat Reader. If the computer you are using does not have Acrobat or the Acrobat browser plugin, you can download it free.
asl & deaf studies Utah Valley University
Doug Stringham
Adjunct Instructor
Department of ASL & Deaf Studies
Utah Valley University
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Last updated: August 29, 2011