Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify the context of legal terminology
- Identify key features of the legal and judicial system, including key people and structures.
- Describe standard procedures specific to oral communication in formal legal and policing contexts.
- Outline the role and responsibilities of interpreters and others in legal and policing contexts.
- Identify social, cultural and professional conventions of English and LOTE appropriate to legal and judicial contexts.
- Explain the consequences of oral rendition of fixed texts and use of incorrect legal terminology.
- Extend understanding of legal terminology
- Recognise and explain complex legal terminology and key legal concepts and processes in English and LOTE.
- Establish standard translations for fixed text encountered in policing and judicial contexts that correctly reflect underlying common law principles.
- Research and increase knowledge of complex legal terminology in English and LOTE.
- Spell and pronounce complex legal terminology correctly.
- Use appropriate oral or signed communication in legal contexts
- Receive and understand oral or signed questions and answers using complex English and LOTE legal terminology.
- Seek clarification of use and meaning of terms and associated processes.
- Use a range of complex English and LOTE legal vocabulary and expressions in interpreting.
- Use prosodic features, gestures and body language appropriate to the legal and policing context.
- Identify the context of legal terminology
- Identify key features of the legal and judicial system, including key people and structures.
- Describe standard procedures specific to oral communication in formal legal and policing contexts.
- Outline the role and responsibilities of interpreters and others in legal and policing contexts.
- Identify social, cultural and professional conventions of English and LOTE appropriate to legal and judicial contexts.
- Explain the consequences of oral rendition of fixed texts and use of incorrect legal terminology.
- Extend understanding of legal terminology
- Recognise and explain complex legal terminology and key legal concepts and processes in English and LOTE.
- Establish standard translations for fixed text encountered in policing and judicial contexts that correctly reflect underlying common law principles.
- Research and increase knowledge of complex legal terminology in English and LOTE.
- Spell and pronounce complex legal terminology correctly.
- Use appropriate oral or signed communication in legal contexts
- Receive and understand oral or signed questions and answers using complex English and LOTE legal terminology.
- Seek clarification of use and meaning of terms and associated processes.
- Use a range of complex English and LOTE legal vocabulary and expressions in interpreting.
- Use prosodic features, gestures and body language appropriate to the legal and policing context.