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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to check translation
   • Identify and confirm work requirements, performance expectations and end use of text, and agree approach.
   • Obtain and review source and translated text files and associated glossary and documentation and determine personal competence and willingness to undertake assignment.
   • Select and prepare references and equipment.
2. Compare translated text to source text
   • Analyse source text and identify subject and key elements.
   • Check coherence of translation and identify translation problems and transfer errors.
   • Compare translated text to source text for completeness and factual and linguistic accuracy.
   • Evaluate translation fitness for purpose and identify relevant issues.
   • Undertake research and make critical use of references to address problems, errors and questions from the original translator.
   • Resolve translation problems and record findings and decisions in glossary, citing sources.
3. Propose amendments to translation
   • Make revisions to text using an agreed process and ensure amendments are visible and queries resolved.
   • Annotate text where necessary and give clear instructions to desktop publisher where required.
   • Provide objective advice in response to questions and propose corrections to text within level of expertise.
4. Submit quality assured translation
   • Provide checked translation to client or original translator in line with agreed arrangements and confirm that it meets client requirements.
   • Discuss proposed corrections to text with appropriate persons according to established procedures and code of ethics.
   • Retain copy of checked translation and associated documentation for future reference, according to privacy and business protocols.
   • Seek feedback from relevant persons and explore process improvement strategies.
5. Prepare to check translation
   • Identify and confirm work requirements, performance expectations and end use of text, and agree approach.
   • Obtain and review source and translated text files and associated glossary and documentation and determine personal competence and willingness to undertake assignment.
   • Select and prepare references and equipment.
6. Compare translated text to source text
   • Analyse source text and identify subject and key elements.
   • Check coherence of translation and identify translation problems and transfer errors.
   • Compare translated text to source text for completeness and factual and linguistic accuracy.
   • Evaluate translation fitness for purpose and identify relevant issues.
   • Undertake research and make critical use of references to address problems, errors and questions from the original translator.
   • Resolve translation problems and record findings and decisions in glossary, citing sources.
7. Propose amendments to translation
   • Make revisions to text using an agreed process and ensure amendments are visible and queries resolved.
   • Annotate text where necessary and give clear instructions to desktop publisher where required.
   • Provide objective advice in response to questions and propose corrections to text within level of expertise.
8. Submit quality assured translation
   • Provide checked translation to client or original translator in line with agreed arrangements and confirm that it meets client requirements.
   • Discuss proposed corrections to text with appropriate persons according to established procedures and code of ethics.
   • Retain copy of checked translation and associated documentation for future reference, according to privacy and business protocols.
   • Seek feedback from relevant persons and explore process improvement strategies.

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.

comparing translated text to source text to arrive at an objective evaluation of the work of the original translator

ensuring that translation is accurate, complete and correctly targeted to its intended end use

providing and seeking advice in a sensitive manner and within level of personal expertise

using technology for purposes of information, collaboration, recording, file management, version control and tracking

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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.

privacy and confidentiality requirements

quality assurance parameters

factual and linguistic accuracy

functional equivalence

meaning in context

punctuation

register and style

semantic structure

terminology

transfer errors

transfer problems

writing conventions

relevant translating theories and techniques

research methods to source information that will clarify content issues, including advanced bilingual internet search techniques

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