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From Interpreting Student to Deaf Interpreter: A Case Study of Vocational Identity Development
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In: Journal of Interpretation (2021)
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Research indicates that the development of a vocational identity is critical to the process of adult maturation and for creating a sense of purpose in one’s life. Deaf individuals in the United States are increasingly interested in establishing a vocation in signed language interpreting, despite workplace obstacles experienced by other oppressed and marginalized populations. Career identity has been examined in several professions, but little is known about the factors underlying the vocational identity development of Deaf interpreters. To address this gap, the researchers adopted a case study approach to explore the experiences of two Deaf students during their first semester in an undergraduate interpreting program. We analyzed video recordings of interaction between the students and a Deaf instructor, the students’ responses during an end-of-semester interview, and the students’ biographical information. Taken together, the data reveal factors that shaped their paths as interpreters including: (a) educational background, (b) professional experience, (c) bilingual and bicultural fluency, (d) personal identity, and (e) guidance from a Deaf instructor. This paper illuminates how two Deaf students who engaged in separate but interlocking paths developed a vocational identity as interpreters – or changed course – in their career trajectories.
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American Sign Language; case study; Deaf interpreter educators; Deaf interpreters; Development Studies; Inequality and Stratification; interpreter education; Language Interpretation and Translation; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Sign Languages; Vocational Education; vocational identity development
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URL: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=joi
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/joi/vol29/iss1/5
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Insights from U.S. deaf patients: Interpreters’ presence and receptive skills matter in patient-centered communication care
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In: Journal of Interpretation (2020)
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Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
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In: ISSN: 0027-8424 ; EISSN: 1091-6490 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01984190 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115 (45), pp.11369-11376 (2018)
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Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English (with co-speech gesture): The role of modality in referring to non-nameable objects
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‘My Fellow Citizens’: Deaf Perspectives on Translating the Opening Line of a Presidential Inaugural Address into American Sign Language
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In: Journal of Interpretation (2016)
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Directionality in ASL-English interpreting: Accuracy and articulation quality in L1 and L2
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Preparation strategies used by American Sign Language- English interpreters to render President Barack Obama’s inaugural address ...
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Preparation strategies used by American Sign Language- English interpreters to render President Barack Obama’s inaugural address
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Direction asymmetries in spoken and signed language interpreting*
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