Theory to Practice—It’s a Long Jump!
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Title
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Theory to Practice—It’s a Long Jump!
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Creator
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Gracie Ann Meives
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degree
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Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies
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Date
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9/15/2025
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Note
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Elisa Maroney
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note
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Amanda Smith
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Erin Trine
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Abstract
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My aim with this project is to explore the development of a new interpreter in a K–12 educational setting. In my professional reflective journal, I collected data focused on new interpreters’ skill development, such as feedback, mentors, work samples, boundaries, supervision sessions, and lexical/grammatical items. Using the text analysis tool Voyant (2025), I scanned the data for lexical patterns as well as general themes in each quarter of the journal. My findings point to four overarching periods of transition that each have their own distinctive data and patterns. These four quarters are found in the results in Chapter 4. These distinct quarters show the natural progression of filling “the gap” between theory and real-world interpreting experiences. I hope to use my findings to offer a look into the process of transitioning from an interpreter education program to life as a working professional to better identify emerging professionals’ skill acquisition needs.
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Type
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Text; Image; StillImage
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Action Research Project
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Language
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eng
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Rights
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Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 09/29/2025, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author.
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https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
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Identifier
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arp_20251023c
