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Analyzing Interpreter's Performance: TV Program Challenge

Perform a TV show as a patient to evaluate your interpretation skills. Identify inconsistencies, awkward behaviors, and missed information. Analyze message accuracy and language proficiency. Practice active listening and message analysis for professional growth.

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Analyzing Interpreter's Performance: TV Program Challenge

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  1. Videotape student (yourself) performing an interpretation of a TV program as if the TV program was your client/patient

  2. Look for inconsistent actions that detract from your performance as an interpreter.

  3. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I have any awkward ticks or make strange noises?

  4. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I talk too loud or too soft?

  5. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I go too fast or too slow?

  6. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Was I fluid? Or was I hesitant?

  7. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I add information that was not said in the source?

  8. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I miss information that was said in the source?

  9. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I speak clearly? Was it difficult to understand myself?

  10. ACTIVE LISTENING via parroting in the same language • Did I sound professional? Did I sound qualified?

  11. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I interpret the meaning and not the words?

  12. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I preserve the meaning of the source?

  13. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Were my sentences well constructed? How was my grammar?

  14. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did my sentences make sense? Or were some things obscure?

  15. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I understand all the vocabulary?

  16. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I add information that was not said in the source?

  17. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I miss information that was said in the source?

  18. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Was there anything I said that I couldn’t understand?

  19. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia paraphrasing in the same language • Did I sound professional? Did I sound qualified?

  20. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I add information that was not said?

  21. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I miss information that was said?

  22. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I interpret meaning, not words?

  23. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I use 1st person?

  24. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I speak clearly in BOTH languages?

  25. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I preserve pragmatic use of source?

  26. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I preserve emphasis, nuances and subtleties?

  27. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I preserve register (intimate, casual, formal, jargon, slang)?

  28. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I have a wide range of vocabulary (adjectives, verbs, nouns)?

  29. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Were sentence construction and grammar adequate in target?

  30. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did source language interfere with target language (structure)?

  31. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Was I bound by source and ended up interpreting literally?

  32. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I use false cognates? (Confirm meanings in doubt)

  33. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I use good target equivalence? (Figurative language, etc.)

  34. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I know all the vocabulary?

  35. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I go too fast or too slow?

  36. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Was I fluid? Or was I hesitant?

  37. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Was there anything I said that I couldn’t understand?

  38. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did my sentences make sense? Or were some things obscure?

  39. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I forget which language to speak in?

  40. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I sound professional? Did I sound qualified?

  41. INTERPRETINGvia conversion exercises • Did I have any awkward ticks or make strange noises?

  42. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia retro interpretation • What changes in meaning did I notice?

  43. MESSAGE ANALYSISvia retro interpretation • Why did these changes in meaning occur?(source to target or target back to source) • Detail each occurrence

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