Translators and Interpreters Certification in Australia, Canada, the Usа and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

• Authors: Kateryna Skyba
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents an overview of the certification process by which potential translators and interpreters demonstrate minimum standards of performance to warrant official or professional recognition of their ability to translate or interpret and to practice professionally in Australia, Canada, the USA and Ukraine. The aim of the study is to research and to compare the certification procedures of translators and interpreters in Australia, Canada, the USA and Ukraine; to outline possible avenues of creating a certification system network in Ukraine. It has been revealed that there is great variation in minimum requirements for practice, availability of training facilities and formal bodies that certify practitioners and that monitor and advance specialists’ practices in the countries. Certification can be awarded by governmental or non-governmental organizations or associations of professionals in the field of translation/interpretation. Testing has been acknowledged as the usual avenue for candidates to gain certification. There are less popular grounds to get certification such as: completed training, presentation of previous relevant experience, and/or recommendations from practicing professionals or service-user. The comparative analysis has revealed such elements of the certification procedures and national conventions in the researched countries that may form a basis for Ukrainian translators/interpreters certifying system and make it a part of a cross-national one.

Keywords

EN

translator; interpreter; translation; interpreting; certification; certifying system; certification procedure; translation and interpreting testing; translation and interpreting services

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 58-64

Dates

published

2014-09-01

online

2014-11-25

Contributors

author

Kateryna Skyba

• Khmelnytskyi national university, Address: 11 Instytutska str., Khmelnytskyi, 29016, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rpp-2014-0036