CoreCHI-P flashcards
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- Consecutive interpreting
- Mode in which the speaker pauses after one segment and the interpreter renders that segment into the target language before the speaker continues; accuracy and completeness of each segment are scored.
- Sight translation
- Rendering a written source text orally into the target language, usually with brief preparation time; the interpreter reads ahead by clause while preserving meaning and register.
- Simultaneous interpreting
- Delivering the target-language rendition while the source speaker continues, maintaining a short processing lag; requires split attention between listening, memory, and production.
- Meaning-based rendering
- Transferring the propositional content and intent of the source rather than its word forms; idiomatic and fixed expressions are converted to target-language equivalents with the same function.
- Propositional accuracy
- Preservation of each unit of meaning, including agents, actions, objects, conditions, and negations; dropping or adding a proposition counts as a content error in scoring.
- Critical item fidelity
- Exact rendering of numbers, dosages, dates, negation, diagnoses, and legal consequences; an error on such an item typically outweighs surrounding fluent speech in the rubric.
- Number read-back
- Repeating a figure aloud in the target language to confirm it after noting it; standard practice when a dosage, date, or amount is rapid or acoustically unclear.
- Clarification request
- Asking the speaker to repeat, slow down, or explain an unclear term instead of guessing; scored as appropriate conduct when the ambiguity is genuine.
- Register preservation
- Matching the formality level of the source, including honorifics, titles, and technical versus colloquial wording, so the target sounds natural to its audience.
- First-person interpreting
- Rendering each speaker's words as if the speaker were talking directly, without adding 'he said' or 'she asks'; the default convention in medical and legal dialogue.
- Pre-session framing
- Opening statement introducing the interpreter's role, confirming the language variant, and explaining that everything said will be interpreted; scored as part of professional conduct.
- Role boundary
- Limit on interpreter action: no advice, no summarizing, no answering on the client's behalf, no side conversations; deviations are scored as conduct errors.
- Self-correction
- Immediately repairing one's own mistranslation or slip when noticed; prompt correction is credited, whereas uncorrected errors remain content errors.
- Segmentation control
- Managing how much speech is delivered before rendering, by signaling the speaker to pause; overly long segments increase memory load and omission risk.
- Note-taking symbols
- Abbreviations, arrows, and vertical layouts used as memory cues during consecutive interpreting; notes support recall but are not themselves scored.
- Omission error
- Failure to render a source element that carries meaning; scored by whether the omitted item changes the message, with critical-item omissions weighted most heavily.
- Addition error
- Inserting content not present in the source, including explanations, hedges, or advice; penalized because it alters the speaker's message and can create liability.
- Distortion error
- Rendering that changes the meaning of the source, such as reversing negation, swapping subject and object, or altering a condition; usually the most heavily penalized error type.
- False fluency
- Smooth, confident delivery that conceals meaning errors; rubrics score accuracy separately from fluency so that polish cannot mask content loss.
- Hedging preservation
- Keeping the degree of certainty in the source, such as 'possibly' versus 'certainly'; flattening modality changes clinical and legal meaning.
- Negation handling
- Detecting and rendering negative constructions accurately, including double negatives and rhetorical negatives; missed negation is treated as a critical distortion.
- Idiom equivalence
- Replacing a source idiom with a target idiom of the same function and tone rather than a literal translation, which would sound odd or change meaning.
- Language variant confirmation
- Establishing the specific language or dialect before interpreting, since vocabulary and grammar differ across regions; misidentification causes systematic errors.
- Turn management
- Coordinating who speaks and when, including signaling the end of a segment and preventing overlap; supports accurate consecutive rendering.
- Memory load management
- Techniques such as chunking and note cues that keep a segment within working-memory limits; overload is a leading cause of omissions in consecutive mode.
- Sight translation preparation
- Scanning the document for structure, names, numbers, and unfamiliar terms before voicing; reduces hesitation and mistranslation during delivery.
- Target-language naturalness
- Producing grammar, collocation, and prosody that a native listener would expect, without source-language interference; scored as a separate expression criterion.
- Delivery pacing
- Rate, pausing, and clarity of speech in the rendition; excessively fast or hesitant delivery impedes comprehension and is scored under delivery.
- Cultural mediation limits
- Explaining a cultural concept only when meaning would otherwise be lost, and marking it as an explanation; unmarked additions are scored as errors.
- Confidentiality conduct
- Not disclosing encounter content and not discussing cases outside the assignment; breaches are professional-conduct violations scored in performance assessment.
- Impartiality
- Treating all parties equally, avoiding side-taking, and disclosing conflicts of interest; partiality undermines the accuracy and trustworthiness of the rendition.
- Error analysis rubric
- Scoring framework classifying each deviation as omission, addition, distortion, or register shift, then weighting by impact on the message; drives pass or fail decisions.