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Nicodemus, Brenda; Emmorey, Karen – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Spoken language (unimodal) interpreters often prefer to interpret from their non-dominant language (L2) into their native language (L1). Anecdotally, signed language (bimodal) interpreters express the opposite bias, preferring to interpret from L1 (spoken language) into L2 (signed language). We conducted a large survey study ("N" =…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Sign Language, Native Language, Second Languages
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Van Dijk, Rick; Christoffels, Ingrid; Postma, Albert; Hermans, Daan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
In two experiments we investigated the relationship between the working memory skills of sign language interpreters and the quality of their interpretations. In Experiment 1, we found that scores on 3-back tasks with signs and words were not related to the quality of interpreted narratives. In Experiment 2, we found that memory span scores for…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Sign Language, Short Term Memory, Correlation