ITP 163: English to ASL II Final Written Exam Study Guide

1. Review notes from Consecutive Interpreting in English Units 4-7:

 Understand and know the following information from:

·        Unit 4: Note-taking and Analysis

o       Note-taking

o       Analysis stage

o       Temporal relationships

o       Spatial relationships

o       Discussion questions

·        Unit 5: Memory

o       Storing information –categories for storing information in memory

o       Retrieving information

o       Discussion questions

·        Unit 6: Reformulation

o       Finding the gist

o       Reformulating the location of actors and objects

o       Reformulating specific concepts and relationships

o       Reformulating illocutionary force

o       Reformulating at the word level

o       Discussion questions

·        Unit 7: Monitoring and Correction

o       Factors in self-monitoring

o       Comments on your own interpretation

·        What are Semantic clusters? groupings of similar word families but may have different sign concepts

·        The list of synonyms in “attributing qualities to others” shows that the same sign can be applied to several similar English words