Workshop Description

    While human brain power is a renewable resource, it is far from an unlimited one. Gile’s Effort Model illustrates how interpreters must allocate mental energy to each step of the interpreting process as they conduct multiple cognitive tasks simultaneously.

    This workshop will provide an introduction to Gile’s and other cognitive models, and participants will apply these concepts in exploring their own interpreting process. They will investigate the ways they tend to exert relative mental energy on each step and examine the effectiveness of their practice. If you have a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, be sure to bring it so you can record interpretations for self-analysis! Through consideration and discussion we will begin developing strategies to work most efficiently with this limited and precious resource, mental energy.

 

Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

1. Explain the steps of the interpreting process in their own words.

2. Describe an overview of Gile’s Effort Model as it applies to interpreting.

3. Identify patterns in the relative amount of energy they exert on each interpreting step.

4. Explain why or why not their patterns are effective.

5. Express ways (if any) they would like to reallocate their energy while interpreting.

6. Begin developing activities for practicing energy reallocation.