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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Receive and analyse source message
  2. Transfer message to target language
  3. Evaluate interpreting performance
  4. Receive and analyse source message
  5. Transfer message to target language
  6. Evaluate interpreting performance

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 in both language directions on at least two occasions.

applying LOTE and English language skills required to achieve simultaneous message transfer:

conceptualising and coherently expressing key information in the target language using context-specific terminology as necessary

enunciating clearly

simplifying language structure to reproduce implied meaning for delivery at the same pace as the source

using correct collocations

using colloquial language as appropriate to context and register of source utterance

reproducing factual and linguistic content

solving problems of equivalence in message transfer

transferring cultural concepts and cues embedded in utterances


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, including cross-cultural perspective of communication and behaviour

techniques to identify source of utterances in multi-party discourse

WHS and performance management issues, practices and procedures relevant to chuchotage

interpreting theories that have influenced current interpreting practice, including:

effort model

form based and meaning based transfer