The $60 Texas Court Interpreter Orientation
A Six-Hour, Online, Interactive Training Approved by the Judicial Branch Certification Commission
The average Texas court interpreter now earns $97/hour and reports plenty of freelance assignments to stay busy. This engaging, interactive class meets all requirements for applying to be licensed as a spoken-language interpreter in roughly 3,000 Texas courts. The class is online and self-paced, consisting of a series of videos with comprehension quizzes. The topics covered include:
- The legal right to language access in US courts
- Spoken-language interpreters in the state courts
- The court interpreting career
- Modes of interpreting: sight, consecutive and simultaneous
- Protocol and skills exercises
- The Code of Professional Responsibility for Interpreters in the Judiciary
- Ethical scenarios faced by LCIs (licensed court interpreters)
- Criminal procedure and the courts
- Legal terminology used in criminal cases: cognates, Latin, jargon, terms of art, slang and profanity
- JBCC (Judicial Branch Certification Commission) application process and new license designation requirements
Your Instructor
Marco is a federally certified and state licensed Spanish court interpreter, and is one of the authors of the book Firearms and Other Handheld Weapons. He has twenty-three years of experience in translation and interpretation, a Master of Arts degree in Spanish, and is a frequent conference speaker on language access topics at legal conferences. He is also an American Translators Association certified Spanish to English translator. He sometimes teaches court interpreting at the University of Texas and legal translation at Austin Community College. Marco is past president of the Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association and the Texas Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, and was the state's first Language Access Coordinator.