ATI is coming to Tucson! Join us for this year’s ATI Winter Workshop!

Pima Community College Downtown Campus
1255 N. Stone Ave., Room AH-140
Tucson, AZ 85709-3000

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast and registration
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Workshop sessions

Speaker’ bio: John Bichsel

John Bichsel is Senior Coordinator of Testing and Curriculum at the University of Arizona National Center for Interpretation, where he develops curricula for NCI’s translation and interpretation training programs and testing instruments for legal and medical interpreters in a variety of languages, including Spanish, Navajo, and ASL.

Presentation:

Introducing the National Center for Interpretation 2018 Court Interpreter Training Institute

Next summer marks the 37th year of NCI’s renowned Court Interpreter Training Institute (CITI). For the first time the CITI will be administered as a hybrid program, with a series of webinars in June followed by two weeks of intensive, onsite instruction at the University of Arizona. This presentation will describe the various components of the 2018 CITI, as well as other medical and legal translation and interpretation offerings from NCI.

Speaker’ bio: Dr. Jeffrey W. Gabbitas

Dr. Jeffrey W. Gabbitas was born and raised in Bakersfield, California. He has been the director of the Translation and Interpretation Program at Pima Community College for nine years and has taught Spanish for 20 years at the post-secondary level. Upon returning from Colombia from a two year service mission, he received his Bachelors’ degree in Spanish from Brigham Young University, a Masters’ degree in Spanish Pedagogy from the same institution, and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona.  While he was a student at the U of A he worked as a freelance translator for two different companies related to the mining industry and the medical field. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the TRS Board as well as the TRS Club.  He is the father of six wonderful children and loves to sing and break dance.

Presentation:

SDL Trados 2017: Let’s individually translate a document and learn some skills!

This presentation will give you some of the tools and features included in the SDL Trados 2017 version. Each individual will translate a document in the language pair of their choosing. After translation, you will be able to compare your translation with a version that has already been completed in your language.

Presentation:

Let’s simplify: Practical technology in the interpretation world

This session will give you an opportunity to see and use some of the tools that are available in the interpretation and translation world. We will discover how and when it would be helpful to use digital recorders, recording software, VRI and OPI technology, and transmitters and receivers.

For the agenda, click here:  ATI 2017 Winter workshop agenda

Hope to see you there!

The ATI Board

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