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T1 Interpreter credentialing, testing and training in Australia: past, contemporary and future directions
T2 Certificación de intérpretes, exámenes y capacitación en Australia: direcciones pasadas, presentes, y futuras
A1 Hlavac, Jim
K1 Public service interpreting
K1 Government language services policies
K1 Trainee interpreters
K1 Servicio público de interpretación
K1 Políticas gubernamentales de servicios de idiomas
K1 Estudiantes de interpretación
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB This paper focuses on public service interpreting in Australia, gives a brief overview of socio-historical features, which, like many predominantly Anglophone countries, had policies and practices that openly discouraged bi- and multi-lingualism and that marginalised translation and interpreting. A change to this occurred in the mid-1970s when social policy caught up with post-WWII reality and multiculturalism became a cornerstone of public policy at all levels.Virtually overnight, national policy required the establishment of a national body that registered suitably attributed interpreters and translators to service the needs of non-English-speaking residents. This has led to the development of T&I infrastructure that is responsive to larger and smaller, older and newer linguistic groups, but which encounters attendant difficulties in the harmonisation of standards of practice amongst interpreters across different languages.The relationship of testing to training is examined and this paper concludes with data on those currently entering the sector: statistics are provided from a sample of 50 trainees, attending an introductory, 40-hour course entitled ‘Entry-level Interpreting’ on their motivational and career-aspirational features, and on their views and experiences of interpreting practice.
PB FITISPos-UAH Research Group
SN 2341-3778
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29584
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29584
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024