In this 1-hour, performance-based webinar, participants will learn practical techniques to improve their sight translation skills. Sight translation is a core competency in medical interpreting and accounts for 11% of the CHI bilingual oral exams (Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish).

This session will guide participants through how to analyze and rate their own sight translation performance, provide a clear step-by-step approach to delivering an effective sight translation, and highlight common errors based on CCHI’s four rating scales: lexical content, register of speech, grammar, and quality of speech.

This webinar is ideal for individuals preparing for the CHI oral performance exam, as well as certified interpreters looking to strengthen their skills.

Sight translation makes up 11% of the CHI-oral performance exams. Many candidates do not pass as a result of preventable sight translation errors. In this course, you will learn how interpreting exams are scores, what type of errors to avoid, and will learn sight translation practice exercises you can incorporate into your practice.

Learning objectives:

• Define the four rating scales used to classify errors on the CHI-oral performance exams.
• Identify common sight translation errors according to CCHI’s four rating scales.
• Practice identifying errors in sight translation and labeling them correctly through chunk and recall, mainting the register, and paraphrasing exercises.
• Outline a practice approach to become aware of errors and prevent them during medical encounters to improve patient safety.

• A five-step approach to sight translation
• Differences between lexical, register, grammatical, and speech errors
• Skills to label sight translation errors through individual practice in session
• Common mistakes that ESL learners make that lead to interpreting errors