Feedback & Retour

Learning Objectives

• Define feedback, describe difficulties
• Establish feedback protocol
• Practice feedback protocols through interpreting and retour exercise

Importance?
Difficulties?

Feedback Protocol

• Interpreter establishes goals
• Interpreter self assesses
• Partner shares feedback and offers suggestion
• Interpreter reflects on possible root causes
• Repeat exercise and apply suggestion

Sight Translation

• Interpreter 1 shares goals and sight translates part one
• Feedback session
• Interpreter continues with part two
• Feedback session
• Interpreter 2 shares goals and continues with part three
• Feedback session
• Interpreter 2 continues with part four
• Feedback session

Giving feedback?
Receiving feedback?

Short Consecutive

• Interpreter 1 shares goals a
• Reader reads and interpreter 1 interprets,pausing where indicated until end of part one
• Feedback session
• Continue to part two
• Feedback session
• Switch roles and repeat for parts three and four

Giving feedback?
Receiving feedback?

Impromptu Speaking

• Speaker shares goals
• Speaker renders 90-second speech with must-use words
• Feedback session
• Speaker repeats speech, keeping feedbac in mind

Giving feedback?
Receiving feedback?

Thank You!