Module 0: Overview

Download Module 0: Overview for a thorough introduction to the train-the-trainer content of the next modules, and to know how to use it.

Module 1: Entrance assessment

This starting module highlights the importance of language proficiency levels, exploring different types of language testing. It gives PSI trainers the tools to identify the most suitable entrance assessment methods to assess PSI training candidates.

Module 2: Basic interpreting techniques

The aim of the module is to provide a general overview of basic interpreting techniques from which trainers can draw information and inspiration for training, taking into account the specificities of their trainees.

Module 3: Ethics

The aim of the module is to offer trainers and trainees insight in the basic principles that underpin quality and ethical behaviour in interpreter-mediated encounters with migrants and refugees.

Module 4: The public service domain

The aim of the module is to provide a general overview of the public service domain from which trainers and trainees can draw information and build on taking into account their own local context.

Module 5: The specificities of VMI

This module explores the differences between traditional in-person interpreting and video-mediated interpreting (VMI), highlighting how the dynamics of communication shifts in VMI.