Advances in teaching sign language interpreters.1563683202 Advances in teaching sign language interpreters. Ed. by Cynthia B. Roy. Gallaudet University Gallaudet University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; with federal support. It was founded (1856) as the Kendall School, a training school for deaf and blind students, by Edward Miner Gallaudet (see under Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins). Pr. 2005 216 pages $55.00 Hardcover HV2402 In this collection of ten articles, contributors describe their findings and experiences in teaching interpreters of American Sign Language American Sign Language n. The primary sign language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada. American Sign Language (ASL), n. . Topics include teaching observation techniques to interpreters, using the theories and concepts of discourse mapping, referring expressions for interpreting students, learning and recognizing what interpreters do in interaction, teaching interpreting students to identify omission potential, making the interpreting process come alive, teaching turn-taking and turn-yielding in meetings with deaf and hearing participants, using semantic understanding to reduce "false friends" (unsuitable idiomatic expressions Noun 1. idiomatic expression - an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase, idiom ) and retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train interpreters in telephone interpreting. Articles also include a case study of revision curriculum at Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. . ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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