Educational Interpreting

by Winston, Elizabeth A.

• ISBN13: 9781563683091
• ISBN10: 1563683091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-02
• Publisher: Gallaudet Univ Pr

Summary

This incisive book explores the current state of educational interpreting and how it is failing deaf students. The contributors, all renowned experts in their field, include former educational interpreters, teachers of deaf students, interpreter trainers, and deaf recipients of interpreted educations. Educational Interpretingpresents the salient issues in three distinct sections. Part 1 focuses on deaf studentstheir perspectives on having interpreters in the classroom, the language myths that surround them, the accessibility of language to them, and their cognition. Part 2 raises questions about the support and training that interpreters receive from the school systems, the qualifications that many interpreters bring to an interpreted education, and the accessibility of everyday classrooms for deaf students placed in such environments. Part 3 presents a few of the possible suggestions for addressing the concerns of interpreted educations, and focuses primarily on the interpreter. The contributors discuss the need to (1) define the core knowledge and skills interpreters must have and (2) develop standards of practice and assessment. They also stress that interpreters cannot effect the necessary changes alone; unless and until administrators, parents, teachers, and students recognize the inherent issues of access to education through mediation, little will change for deaf students.

Author Biography

Elizabeth A. Winston is Director, Project TIEM.Online at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Part 1 Deaf Students	7	(82)
Student Perspectives on Educational Interpreting: Twenty Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Offer Insights and Suggestions	9	(39)
Kim Brown Kurz
Elizabeth Caldwell Langer
Language Myths in Interpreted Education: First Language, Second Language, What Language?	48	(13)
Christine Monikowski
Language Accessibility in a Transliterated Education: English Signing Systems	61	(12)
Kelly Stack
How Might Learning through an Educational Interpreter Influence Cognitive Development?	73	(16)
Brenda Schick
Part 2 Interpreting and Interpreters	89	(80)
Perspectives on Educational Interpreting from Educational Anthropology and an Internet Discussion Group	91	(22)
Elizabeth Caldwell Langer
Competencies of K--12 Educational Interpreters: What We Need Versus What We Have	113	(19)
Bernhardt E. Jones
Interpretability and Accessibility of Mainstream Classrooms	132	(37)
Elizabeth A. Winston
Part 3 Improving Interpreted Education	169	(58)
Educational Interpreting: Developing Standards of Practice	171	(7)
Melanie Metzger
Earl Fleetwood
Assessment and Supervision of Educational Interpreters: What Job? Whose Job? Is This Process Necessary?	178	(8)
Marty M. Taylor
The Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment: Current Structure and Practices	186	(20)
Brenda Schick
Kevin T. Williams
Theoretical Tools for Educational Interpreters, or ``The True Confessions of an Ex-Educational Interpreter''	206	(21)
Claire Ramsey
Contributors	227	(2)
Index	229