Community Interpreting Exam Questions and
Answers (Chapter 3: The Community
Interpreter)
What is bias? - -Bias 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.
- What is Project Implicit? - -A Harvard-based project supported by decades
of research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a series of
tests.
- Define intervening - -The act of interrupting a session for any reason.
- 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).
- When should you mediate? - -When the potential consequences of NOT
intervening exceed the risks of intervening.
- What is a mediation script? - -• A mediation "script" is a mental statement
that helps prepare you to mediate effectively. You can write them down.• If
you have a few basic mediation scripts, you can adapt them to almost any
situation where you have to intervene to perform a mediation.
- Why should you have mediation scripts? - -They will make you more
efficient mediators!
- What is a good guideline for mediation? (Hint: When in...) - -When in
doubt, stay out!
- Do interpreters need to report or interpret (for the other party) what they
say when they intervene? - -YES. Transparency is required under the NCIHC
(and the textbook) ethics and standards. You have to interpret everything—
including what you say!
- Why is transparency so important when you mediate? - -If you are not
transparent you undermine communicative autonomy and direct
communication as well as trust.Some interpreters who are not transparent
can be patronizing or paternalistic...
Answers (Chapter 3: The Community
Interpreter)
What is bias? - -Bias 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.
- What is Project Implicit? - -A Harvard-based project supported by decades
of research that lets you explore your own unconscious bias in a series of
tests.
- Define intervening - -The act of interrupting a session for any reason.
- 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).
- When should you mediate? - -When the potential consequences of NOT
intervening exceed the risks of intervening.
- What is a mediation script? - -• A mediation "script" is a mental statement
that helps prepare you to mediate effectively. You can write them down.• If
you have a few basic mediation scripts, you can adapt them to almost any
situation where you have to intervene to perform a mediation.
- Why should you have mediation scripts? - -They will make you more
efficient mediators!
- What is a good guideline for mediation? (Hint: When in...) - -When in
doubt, stay out!
- Do interpreters need to report or interpret (for the other party) what they
say when they intervene? - -YES. Transparency is required under the NCIHC
(and the textbook) ethics and standards. You have to interpret everything—
including what you say!
- Why is transparency so important when you mediate? - -If you are not
transparent you undermine communicative autonomy and direct
communication as well as trust.Some interpreters who are not transparent
can be patronizing or paternalistic...
