EIPA Transliteration and Signed English Systems

Question 1

What is the primary distinction between transliteration and interpretation in educational interpreting?

Accepted Answer

Transliteration preserves the source language structure while interpretation conveys meaning across two distinct languages

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Transliteration is always faster than interpretation

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Interpretation uses fingerspelling exclusively while transliteration uses signs

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Transliteration is only used for academic content while interpretation is used for social conversation

Question 2

Which signed English system is designed to represent every English morpheme, including affixes and verb tenses, with a distinct sign?

Accepted Answer

Signed Exact English (SEE II)

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Pidgin Signed English (PSE)

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Contact Signing

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Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)

Question 3

What is Pidgin Signed English (PSE) most commonly referred to as today?

Accepted Answer

Contact Signing

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Manually Coded English

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Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)

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Simultaneous Communication

Question 4

In which educational situation would a transliterator most appropriately use Signed Exact English (SEE) rather than ASL?

Accepted Answer

When a student's IEP specifies SEE as the communication mode and the student uses SEE at home

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When interpreting a lecture on advanced mathematics

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Whenever the student is Deaf

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When the content is too complex to interpret into ASL

Question 5

What is the purpose of initialized signs in Manually Coded English (MCE) systems?

Accepted Answer

To represent the handshape of the first letter of the corresponding English word

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To indicate the start of a new sentence

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To show that a sign is borrowed from ASL

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To slow down the rate of signing for beginning signers

Question 6

Which of the following best describes Contact Signing as used in educational interpreting?

Accepted Answer

A blend of ASL vocabulary in English word order, often incorporating some ASL grammatical features

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A formal system with standardized grammar rules derived purely from ASL

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A system that fingerspells every word in English

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A method that uses only initialized signs and no ASL loan signs

Question 7

When a teacher uses SimCom (simultaneous communication), what does this involve?

Accepted Answer

Speaking English and signing simultaneously, typically in English word order

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Two interpreters working in relay

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Using fingerspelling at the same time as mouthing words silently

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Switching between ASL and English in alternating turns