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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Analyse source messages
   • Attend to source utterances and make adjustments to assist concentration and comprehension.
   • Analyse discourse and speaker’s strategies to predict discourse direction.
   • Determine key information and relationships between linguistic and non-linguistic elements in the utterances.
   • Identify structural elements of discourse.
   • Identify factors affecting the meaning of utterances.
2. Recall source messages
   • Use a range of encoding and other strategies to support, retain and ensure the accuracy of information.
   • Manage discourse to ensure the quality and reliability of recall.
   • Resolve problems of understanding and recall and seek clarification as required.
   • Review key information and relationships in source utterances.
   • Analyse notes for usefulness in recollection of messages.
3. Reproduce source messages
   • Retrieve message within appropriate timeframe.
   • Reproduce message, maintaining its logical sequence, register and communicative intent.
   • Use a range of techniques to track reproduced information.
   • Assess effectiveness of strategies used and consider improvements.
4. Analyse source messages
   • Attend to source utterances and make adjustments to assist concentration and comprehension.
   • Analyse discourse and speaker’s strategies to predict discourse direction.
   • Determine key information and relationships between linguistic and non-linguistic elements in the utterances.
   • Identify structural elements of discourse.
   • Identify factors affecting the meaning of utterances.
5. Recall source messages
   • Use a range of encoding and other strategies to support, retain and ensure the accuracy of information.
   • Manage discourse to ensure the quality and reliability of recall.
   • Resolve problems of understanding and recall and seek clarification as required.
   • Review key information and relationships in source utterances.
   • Analyse notes for usefulness in recollection of messages.
6. Reproduce source messages
   • Retrieve message within appropriate timeframe.
   • Reproduce message, maintaining its logical sequence, register and communicative intent.
   • Use a range of techniques to track reproduced information.
   • Assess effectiveness of strategies used and consider improvements.

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.

analysing general and specialist source utterances and determining important aspects of language, content, context and intention

applying linguistic, semantic and pragmatic strategies to address structural elements of discourse

maintaining information recall and reproduction

overcoming problems in language, meaning and presentation

reproducing diverse messages accurately and coherently

developing and applying own note taking techniques to support retention and recall

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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.

characteristics of communication

linguistic features, including register appropriate to setting, and forms and variations of language

universal interpreter note taking techniques and conventions

techniques to assist recall

linguistic and non-linguistic elements of utterances

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