Final exam review interpreter course
Questions and Answers Graded Exam
What is bias?
✓✓ It refers to a personal attitude or perspective that is not
impartial and tends to favor one viewpoint or social group
over another. It is usually unconscious.
Define working language
✓✓ Any language the interpreter interprets in
What is Project Implicit?
✓✓ It's a Harvard-based project suported by decades of
research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a
series of tests.
What is community interpreting?
✓✓ A specialization of interpreting that facilitates access to
community services.
Define intervening
✓✓ The act of interrupting a session for any reason.
,What is bias?
✓✓ It refers to a personal attitude or perspective that is not
impartial and tends to favor one viewpoint or social group
over another. It is usually unconscious.
Define mediation
✓✓ Any act or utterance of the interpreter that goes beyond
interpreting and is intended to address a barrier to
communication or service delivery (or access to the service).
Define Source language
✓✓ The language your interpret FROM
Define medical interpreting.
✓✓ Interpreting for patients, their families and healthcare
providers, i.e., a specialization of interpreting that facilitates
access to healthcare.
When should you mediate?
✓✓ When the potential consequences of NOT intervening
exceed the risk of intervening.
What is a mediation script?
, ✓✓ It is a mental statement that helps prepare you to
mediate effectively. You can write them down.
What is Project Implicit?
✓✓ It's a Harvard-based project suported by decades of
research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a
series of tests.
Why should you have mediation scripts?
✓✓ They will make you more efficient mediators!
Define Target language
✓✓ The language you interpret INTO
What is a good guideline for mediation?
✓✓ When in doubt, stay out!
Are medical interpreters community interpreters?
✓✓ YES!!!!!!!!!!
Do interpreters need to report or interpret (for the other party)
what they say when they intervene?
Questions and Answers Graded Exam
What is bias?
✓✓ It refers to a personal attitude or perspective that is not
impartial and tends to favor one viewpoint or social group
over another. It is usually unconscious.
Define working language
✓✓ Any language the interpreter interprets in
What is Project Implicit?
✓✓ It's a Harvard-based project suported by decades of
research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a
series of tests.
What is community interpreting?
✓✓ A specialization of interpreting that facilitates access to
community services.
Define intervening
✓✓ The act of interrupting a session for any reason.
,What is bias?
✓✓ It refers to a personal attitude or perspective that is not
impartial and tends to favor one viewpoint or social group
over another. It is usually unconscious.
Define mediation
✓✓ Any act or utterance of the interpreter that goes beyond
interpreting and is intended to address a barrier to
communication or service delivery (or access to the service).
Define Source language
✓✓ The language your interpret FROM
Define medical interpreting.
✓✓ Interpreting for patients, their families and healthcare
providers, i.e., a specialization of interpreting that facilitates
access to healthcare.
When should you mediate?
✓✓ When the potential consequences of NOT intervening
exceed the risk of intervening.
What is a mediation script?
, ✓✓ It is a mental statement that helps prepare you to
mediate effectively. You can write them down.
What is Project Implicit?
✓✓ It's a Harvard-based project suported by decades of
research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a
series of tests.
Why should you have mediation scripts?
✓✓ They will make you more efficient mediators!
Define Target language
✓✓ The language you interpret INTO
What is a good guideline for mediation?
✓✓ When in doubt, stay out!
Are medical interpreters community interpreters?
✓✓ YES!!!!!!!!!!
Do interpreters need to report or interpret (for the other party)
what they say when they intervene?
