Interpretation Skills: American Sign Language to English, Second Edition
by Marty M. Taylor, PhD
Available May, 2027 ISBN 978-0-9940270-2-3

DISCOVER 60+ SKILLS ensuring every ASL message, every nuance, is fully expressed. Master the skills behind great ASL to English interpretation answering the questions:

• How do you know when an interpretation is successful?
• What makes an interpretation accurate, clear, and eloquent?
• What makes it “good”? What makes it “outstanding”?

It’s more than knowing two languages. Effective interpretation requires a complex set of skills—and understanding those skills is crucial to developing stronger interpreting performances.

Drawing on more than 35 years of research, Dr. Marty Taylor identifies and defines over 60 distinct interpretation skills essential to ASL to English interpretation. 

The book contains:

✓ Clearly defined interpretation skills
Understand the specific skills that contribute to effective interpretations.

✓ Common interpretation errors
Recognize what can happen when Key Skills are missing or underdeveloped.

✓ A practical framework for growth
Use the book for learning, teaching, assessment, professional development, and self-improvement.

FOR STUDENTS • PRACTITIONERS • EDUCATORS • ASSESSORS

Whether developing your skills, teaching future interpreters, or evaluating interpreting performances, Interpretation Skills: American Sign Language to English, Second Edition, gives you a clear path to understand what effective interpretation requires.

The book steps readers through a logical path of skill development. There are careful explanations, plentiful examples. An excellent resource to use with:

• Companion book Interpretation Skills: English to ASL (Second Edition)

About the Author

Dr. Marty Taylor has been an interpreter, an educator, a researcher and consultant in ASL-English interpretation for over 35 years. She is a nationally certified interpreter in both Canada and the United States.

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