AUSIT & NAATI Present: Interaction Management in Community Interpreting (Webinar)

   

This event is proudly sponsored by NAATI – Registration is FREE for AUSIT members and all NAATI-credentialed practitioners!

Community interpreters enable communication across a wide variety of settings between people who do not speak the same language. Interpreters relay the primary participants’ respective utterances, and they coordinate the flow of talk between them (Wadensjö, 1998). They regularly manage the interaction during onsite and remote assignments to maintain accuracy and the optimum flow of the communication. For example, they explain their role to clients, set up communication rules, ask participants to pause, slow down or speak one at a time, respond to asides, request clarification or repetition, manage interruptions and misunderstandings.

This webinar aims to equip interpreters with knowledge and skills for managing interaction effectively and appropriately across community settings. We will cover the following topics:

• Understanding interaction management
• Settings and situations when interventions are required
• Strategies for managing interaction in onsite and remote assignments with individual clients as well as groups
• Interaction management dos and don’ts

Our Presenter - Anna Kenny

Anna Kenny is a Polish Interpreter and a Professional Development Coordinator with the NSW Health Care Interpreter Services.

Anna was born and educated in Poland. She graduated from Warsaw University with a Masters Degree in English Philology. Anna also holds a Masters Degree in Interpreting and Translation Pedagogy from Macquarie University, Sydney.

Anna has worked for HCIS for over 30 years where she coordinates and facilitates training for healthcare interpreters across NSW. She has also taught interpreting at Macquarie University, developed medical interpreting resources for RMIT and facilitated seminars on medical interpreting, ethics and interpreting skills for AUSIT and private interpreting agencies.

Anna is a recipient of the 2018 AUSIT excellence award for Outstanding Contribution to Translation and Interpreting.

Joining the Webinar

The Zoom links for the webinar will be sent out 1 day prior to the session you registered to attend. Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of Zoom in preparation.

PD Logbook

Intermediate PD.

This webinar is eligible for 10 PD points under category 1.4 of the NAATI Recertification Catalogue.

Certificates and recordings

Please note no PD certificates will be issued for this event. Please keep a copy of your registration confirmation email as proof of participation to claim your PD points.

This is a live webinar event and will be recorded. Free recordings will be made available via NAATI Learn after the event, and for AUSIT members on the members homepage of the AUSIT website.

Together, we aim to support the ongoing professional growth of NAATI-credentialed practitioners.

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