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"Development of Sign Language Interpreters’ Professional Training in Russia" | Chapter summary in Russian Sign Language
Chapter authors: Anna Komarova, Tatiana Davidenko, Valeria Vinogradova, and Bencie Woll
From “International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education”
Edited by Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, and Robert Adam
Published by Gallaudet University Press
**This video may not be repurposed or incorporated into other works in any way without the express written consent of the signer and the chapter authors.**
Visual description: The signer is a 30-year-old woman with shoulder-length brown hair standing against a plain, lightly colored wall. She is wearing a black t-shirt, has a tattoo on her right arm, a nose ring, and earrings. The video captures her face and hands and does not extend below the chest area.
Transcript:
Hello! My name is Valeria Vinogradova. I would like to tell you about a book on the education of sign language interpreters. This book was published by Gallaudet University in the USA, and it includes a chapter about RSL. The chapter was written by Anna Komarova [sign name] and Tatiana Davidenko [sign name]. The two of them talk about the first instances of books mentioning sign language interpreting in Russia. This was before the Revolution, when interpreters were needed to interpret prayers for the church. After the Revolution, interpreters were needed for factories and for courses on literacy. VOG [the All-Russian Society of the Deaf] started preparing interpreters actively in the 1930s. A famous deaf person, Semyon Ivanov [sign name], prepared about 800 interpreters in different regions. Then, in the 1970s, Joseph Geilman started teaching interpreters in Pavlovsk, but he focused more on teaching Signed Russian. Up to this day, many colleges across Russia keep teaching according to the Signed Russian method.
Recently, in 2012, an important event happened in Russia. Russian Sign Language was officially recognized as a language. Because of that, different programs were opened at universities. These are full-term, four-year higher education degrees. They were established at Moscow State Linguistic University, Novosibirsk State Technological University, and now another program has been added at Kazan Federal University. They all teach interpreters for four years, to work with both spoken and signed languages. Anna and Tatiana also wrote about the situation with interpreter training in different countries of the post-Soviet space. If you are interested in learning more about this publication, you can contact me. Thank you!
Find out more at https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/internationalperspectives
"Development of Sign Language Interpreters’ Professional Training in Russia" | Chapter summary in Russian Sign Language
Chapter authors: Anna Komarova, Tatiana Davidenko, Valeria Vinogradova, and Bencie Woll
From “International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education”
Edited by Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, and Robert Adam
Published by Gallaudet University Press
**This video may not be repurposed or incorporated into other works in any way without the express written consent of the signer and the chapter authors.**
Visual description: The signer is a 30-year-old woman with shoulder-length brown hair standing against a plain, lightly colored wall. She is wearing a black t-shirt, has a tattoo on her right arm, a nose ring, and earrings. The video captures her face and hands and does not extend below the chest area.
Transcript:
Hello! My name is Valeria Vinogradova. I would like to tell you about a book on the education of sign language interpreters. This book was published by Gallaudet University in the USA, and it includes a chapter about RSL. The chapter was written by Anna Komarova [sign name] and Tatiana Davidenko [sign name]. The two of them talk about the first instances of books mentioning sign language interpreting in Russia. This was before the Revolution, when interpreters were needed to interpret prayers for the church. After the Revolution, interpreters were needed for factories and for courses on literacy. VOG [the All-Russian Society of the Deaf] started preparing interpreters actively in the 1930s. A famous deaf person, Semyon Ivanov [sign name], prepared about 800 interpreters in different regions. Then, in the 1970s, Joseph Geilman started teaching interpreters in Pavlovsk, but he focused more on teaching Signed Russian. Up to this day, many colleges across Russia keep teaching according to the Signed Russian method.
Recently, in 2012, an important event happened in Russia. Russian Sign Language was officially recognized as a language. Because of that, different programs were opened at universities. These are full-term, four-year higher education degrees. They were established at Moscow State Linguistic University, Novosibirsk State Technological University, and now another program has been added at Kazan Federal University. They all teach interpreters for four years, to work with both spoken and signed languages. Anna and Tatiana also wrote about the situation with interpreter training in different countries of the post-Soviet space. If you are interested in learning more about this publication, you can contact me. Thank you!
