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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify translating requirements and expectations of audience
   • Identify source, context and purpose of text, determining specific requirements and regional or specialist aspects.
   • Identify audience for translated text and confirm that translation requirements and expectations match those of client.
   • Identify social and cultural issues and plan solutions relevant to translation task.
2. Analyse language of source text
   • Identify source LOTE, including register and style.
   • Confirm and review resources to aid in understanding unfamiliar language.
   • Build, use and maintain assignment-specific glossary.
   • Recognise idiomatic and metaphorical expressions and foreign loan words in source language.
   • Analyse language and writing conventions, determining use of terminology and language.
3. Analyse grammar and cohesion of source text
   • Analyse function of source language punctuation and determine semantic and syntactic structure.
   • Apply subject and context knowledge to analysis, sourcing further assistance where required.
   • Paraphrase text to check plausibility of comprehension.
   • Restructure text as necessary to clarify meaning.
4. Resolve difficulties
   • Identify deficient source text and discuss with appropriate persons.
   • Suggest solutions and reformulate text as agreed for effective translation.
   • Use a range of techniques and resources to address and resolve difficulties identified.
5. Identify translating requirements and expectations of audience
   • Identify source, context and purpose of text, determining specific requirements and regional or specialist aspects.
   • Identify audience for translated text and confirm that translation requirements and expectations match those of client.
   • Identify social and cultural issues and plan solutions relevant to translation task.
6. Analyse language of source text
   • Identify source LOTE, including register and style.
   • Confirm and review resources to aid in understanding unfamiliar language.
   • Build, use and maintain assignment-specific glossary.
   • Recognise idiomatic and metaphorical expressions and foreign loan words in source language.
   • Analyse language and writing conventions, determining use of terminology and language.
7. Analyse grammar and cohesion of source text
   • Analyse function of source language punctuation and determine semantic and syntactic structure.
   • Apply subject and context knowledge to analysis, sourcing further assistance where required.
   • Paraphrase text to check plausibility of comprehension.
   • Restructure text as necessary to clarify meaning.
8. Resolve difficulties
   • Identify deficient source text and discuss with appropriate persons.
   • Suggest solutions and reformulate text as agreed for effective translation.
   • Use a range of techniques and resources to address and resolve difficulties identified.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least two occasions.

identifying the key linguistic, cultural, societal and situational elements in the source text

analysing source text language and writing conventions for meaning, including:

acronyms and eponyms

cause and effect relationships

cohesive and substitution devices

function of words and grammatical elements

idioms and idiomatic expressions

metaphor and simile

punctuation

register and style

terminology and jargon

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

cultural knowledge to identify inherent cultural and socio-cultural concepts

language structure, metaphors and idioms in source language

techniques to parse sentences

subject specialist area and culture-specific knowledge relevant to topic of translation

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