Comparing traditional interpreting, ‘videoconference interpreting’ and ‘remote interpreting’

In this and the following presentation we will focus on the importance of training for interpreters as well as for legal practitioners. On the basis of our observations and the feedback we received from training modules we organised in AVIDICUS2 – two for interpreters in The Hague and in Antwerp, and one for legal practitioners in the Court of Appeal in Antwerp – we developed new role play simulations of police interviews using traditional interpreting, videoconference and remote interpreting. The simulations were conducted by the same police officers as in AVIDICUS1 and interpreted by the same interpreters who by now had acquired more experience (and self-confidence) in videoconference-based interpreting. The new role play simulations were analysed and compared with the findings from the role play simulations in AVIDICUS 1. In this presentation, we will present the outcomes of the comparison. Concerning interpreting itself, the most significant problems interpreters had in AVIDICUS 1 before training were turn-taking and overlapping problems. In our presentation we are able to show that these problems can be mitigated after training. In our conclusion we will concentrate on the key implications of these results and of the workshops which can make the work of interpreters and legal practitioners in videoconference-based interpreting more efficient and more ‘comfortable’.status: publishe