What sort of training for community interpreters? The system implemented in French-speaking Switzerland

Abstract

This article discusses the methods and aims when trai¬ning professional community inter-preters, based on the scheme used in French-speaking Switzer-land. With the founding of the Swiss association for community interpretation and intercultural mediation, an official training program has been developed: it consists of two modules, “Community interpretation in trialogue settings” and “Guid-ance in the fields of health, social issues and training”. After speci-fying Appartenance associa-tions’s phi¬losophical and epis-temological heritages, we show how they are reflected through-out the different stages of our educational scheme.