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Course Description

This course focuses on developing the knowledge and skills to understand a source message or represent a target message that resembles English. Current theories about transliteration and contact language varieties are presented and transliteration strategies are developed through guided practice. Prepared and spontaneous texts from various settings are used to reinforce the concepts presented in class. Information about the role of facial grammar, processing, finger-spelling, and mouth movements is discussed. Language policy issues and how these policies in public schools influence the choices interpreters/transliteraters make are also covered. 

Learner Outcomes

  1. Apply the appropriate strategies and techniques required for successful consecutive and simultaneous transliterations 
  2. Effectively transliterate messages consecutively or simultaneously into signed English or spoken English 
  3. Discuss the "demands" evident in various situations and the "controls" that are available to the interpreter to produce an effective transliteration 
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