Community Interpreting FINAL EXAM
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1. What is Community Interpreting? - ANSWER ✓ A specialization of
interpreting used in community-based settings to facilitate access to
community services such as medical, educational, and social services.
2. You support equal access to community services by facilitating
communication and understanding.
3. Define medical interpreting: - ANSWER ✓ Interpreting for patients, their
family and a healthcare provider.
4. What is the purpose of interpreting? - ANSWER ✓ To facilitate
communication between parties who do not share a common language.
5. Describe Communicative Autonomy: - ANSWER ✓ The capacity of each
party in an encounter to be responsible for and in control of his/her own
communication.
6. Which area of community interpreting has become the most
professionalized? - ANSWER ✓ Medical
7. Four elements of an interpreter's introduction: - ANSWER ✓ 1. I'll be
interpreting everything that is said
2. I'll keep everything confidential
, 3. Please speak directly to each other, not to me
4. Speak in short sentences and please pause when I give this sign
(demonstrate sign) to let me interpret.
8. What are some exceptions to using first person/direct speech? - ANSWER ✓
- Elderly
- Very young children
- Mentally ill patients
- Emergency
- When you are traumatized by what you hear
9. What should you do if a provider keeps speaking in third person/indirect
speech? - ANSWER ✓ Interrupt the session to remind them to speak to each
other.
10.What is chunking? - ANSWER ✓ Dividing the message into small chunks of
meaning to help you encode. store and retrieve it.
Categorize them in your brain (group them)
11.List some message transfer skills for interpreters: - ANSWER ✓ - Listen to
the message
- Understand and analyze
- Convert the message
- Deliver the message
12.Name the three modes of interpreting: - ANSWER ✓ 1. Consecutive
2. Simultaneous
3. Sight-translation
13.List the steps for sight translation: - ANSWER ✓ 1. Before the sight
translation:
- Make sure that the provider is present
- Use the CALL model
14.2. During the sight translation:
- Read the entire text to yourself
- Identify challenges
- Ask for clarification
, - Render the text from beginning to end
15.3. After the sight translation:
- Self-asses the accuracy of your sight translation
- Decide if you should continue to sight translate
16.Which document is it acceptable to sight translate? - ANSWER ✓ Short,
simple without advanced, complex, or legal terms.
17.What does C.A.L.L stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Complex language
Advanced terminology
Legal language
Long documents
18.If you decide not to sight translate a document, what should you do instead?
- ANSWER ✓ Be gracious, offer choices and give reasons.
19.What is wrong with summarizing? - ANSWER ✓ - Assuming
- Picking & choosing what to interpret
20.What is Bias? - ANSWER ✓ Bias is a personal attitude or perspective that is
not impartial and tends to prefer one viewpoint or one social group to
another.
21.What is project implicit? - ANSWER ✓ A test on your own bias created by
Harvard.
22.Define intervening: - ANSWER ✓ Interrupting the session for any reason in
order to perform strategic mediation.
23.Define mediation: - ANSWER ✓ When the interpreter goes beyond
interpreting and is intended to remove a barrier of communication.
24.When should you mediate? - ANSWER ✓ For any communication barrier
that could have serious consequences.
, 25.What is a mediation script? - ANSWER ✓ It's a mental script that you
prepare beforehand so you can be brief & clear, identify the problem, sound
smooth and polished.
26.Why should you have a mediation script? - ANSWER ✓ To be efficient and
it helps you be prepared to identify the communication barrier.
27.What is a good guideline for mediation? - ANSWER ✓ When in doubt, stay
out.
28.Why is transparency so important when you mediate? - ANSWER ✓ It is a
standard of practice and it means that all parties know what is going on.
29.What are the five steps for mediation? - ANSWER ✓ 1. Interpret what was
just said
2. Identify yourself as the interpreter
3. Mediate briefly
4. Report your mediation to the other party
5. Resume interpreting
30.How would you handle a term you don't know if it comes up during the
session? - ANSWER ✓ I would leave the term in the source language and
then ask for clarification.
31.Why shouldn't you explain a cultural misunderstanding yourself? -
ANSWER ✓ You are not a cultural expert and may not fully know the
client's culture.
32.What does it mean to identify or point out a cultural misunderstanding
without explaining it? - ANSWER ✓ It means don't solve the problem but
bring awareness to the provider and patient so they can address the
misunderstanding.
33.What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? - ANSWER ✓ No person
in the United States shall, on ground of race, color, or national origin, be
excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, or be subjected
to discrimination under any program or Exercise receiving Federal financial
assistance.
STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. What is Community Interpreting? - ANSWER ✓ A specialization of
interpreting used in community-based settings to facilitate access to
community services such as medical, educational, and social services.
2. You support equal access to community services by facilitating
communication and understanding.
3. Define medical interpreting: - ANSWER ✓ Interpreting for patients, their
family and a healthcare provider.
4. What is the purpose of interpreting? - ANSWER ✓ To facilitate
communication between parties who do not share a common language.
5. Describe Communicative Autonomy: - ANSWER ✓ The capacity of each
party in an encounter to be responsible for and in control of his/her own
communication.
6. Which area of community interpreting has become the most
professionalized? - ANSWER ✓ Medical
7. Four elements of an interpreter's introduction: - ANSWER ✓ 1. I'll be
interpreting everything that is said
2. I'll keep everything confidential
, 3. Please speak directly to each other, not to me
4. Speak in short sentences and please pause when I give this sign
(demonstrate sign) to let me interpret.
8. What are some exceptions to using first person/direct speech? - ANSWER ✓
- Elderly
- Very young children
- Mentally ill patients
- Emergency
- When you are traumatized by what you hear
9. What should you do if a provider keeps speaking in third person/indirect
speech? - ANSWER ✓ Interrupt the session to remind them to speak to each
other.
10.What is chunking? - ANSWER ✓ Dividing the message into small chunks of
meaning to help you encode. store and retrieve it.
Categorize them in your brain (group them)
11.List some message transfer skills for interpreters: - ANSWER ✓ - Listen to
the message
- Understand and analyze
- Convert the message
- Deliver the message
12.Name the three modes of interpreting: - ANSWER ✓ 1. Consecutive
2. Simultaneous
3. Sight-translation
13.List the steps for sight translation: - ANSWER ✓ 1. Before the sight
translation:
- Make sure that the provider is present
- Use the CALL model
14.2. During the sight translation:
- Read the entire text to yourself
- Identify challenges
- Ask for clarification
, - Render the text from beginning to end
15.3. After the sight translation:
- Self-asses the accuracy of your sight translation
- Decide if you should continue to sight translate
16.Which document is it acceptable to sight translate? - ANSWER ✓ Short,
simple without advanced, complex, or legal terms.
17.What does C.A.L.L stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Complex language
Advanced terminology
Legal language
Long documents
18.If you decide not to sight translate a document, what should you do instead?
- ANSWER ✓ Be gracious, offer choices and give reasons.
19.What is wrong with summarizing? - ANSWER ✓ - Assuming
- Picking & choosing what to interpret
20.What is Bias? - ANSWER ✓ Bias is a personal attitude or perspective that is
not impartial and tends to prefer one viewpoint or one social group to
another.
21.What is project implicit? - ANSWER ✓ A test on your own bias created by
Harvard.
22.Define intervening: - ANSWER ✓ Interrupting the session for any reason in
order to perform strategic mediation.
23.Define mediation: - ANSWER ✓ When the interpreter goes beyond
interpreting and is intended to remove a barrier of communication.
24.When should you mediate? - ANSWER ✓ For any communication barrier
that could have serious consequences.
, 25.What is a mediation script? - ANSWER ✓ It's a mental script that you
prepare beforehand so you can be brief & clear, identify the problem, sound
smooth and polished.
26.Why should you have a mediation script? - ANSWER ✓ To be efficient and
it helps you be prepared to identify the communication barrier.
27.What is a good guideline for mediation? - ANSWER ✓ When in doubt, stay
out.
28.Why is transparency so important when you mediate? - ANSWER ✓ It is a
standard of practice and it means that all parties know what is going on.
29.What are the five steps for mediation? - ANSWER ✓ 1. Interpret what was
just said
2. Identify yourself as the interpreter
3. Mediate briefly
4. Report your mediation to the other party
5. Resume interpreting
30.How would you handle a term you don't know if it comes up during the
session? - ANSWER ✓ I would leave the term in the source language and
then ask for clarification.
31.Why shouldn't you explain a cultural misunderstanding yourself? -
ANSWER ✓ You are not a cultural expert and may not fully know the
client's culture.
32.What does it mean to identify or point out a cultural misunderstanding
without explaining it? - ANSWER ✓ It means don't solve the problem but
bring awareness to the provider and patient so they can address the
misunderstanding.
33.What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? - ANSWER ✓ No person
in the United States shall, on ground of race, color, or national origin, be
excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, or be subjected
to discrimination under any program or Exercise receiving Federal financial
assistance.
