How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Signature has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Signature awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Signature.
The Level 6 Diploma is for individuals working as sign language translators. It develops skills in managing translation assignments, translating written texts, and developing performance as a professional translator.
These are the units Signature registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Signature. It does the teaching and the mapping. Signature sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Develop your performance as a professional translator Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own performance as a professional translator, identifying areas of strength and areas requiring further development
- Plan personal continuing professional development activities to enhance translation skills and knowledge, keeping up-to-date with industry best practice
Develop your performance as a professional translator Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own performance as a professional translator, identifying areas of strength and weakness
- Plan personal continuing professional development activities to enhance translation skills and knowledge
Maintain skills and systems for managing translation tasks Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Describe how to maintain and develop language skills relevant to translation tasks
- Describe how to maintain and develop research skills relevant to translation tasks
- Evaluate the suitability of electronic equipment for managing translation tasks
- Evaluate the suitability of programs and software for managing translation tasks
- Explain the importance of developing communication skills in a professional translation context
- Explain the importance of maintaining good relationships with clients, translation companies and colleagues
- Implement administrative systems to ensure business requirements are met in relation to translation tasks
Maintain skills and systems for managing translation tasks Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain and develop language proficiency in both source and target languages, including grammar, vocabulary, and cultural nuances
- Maintain and develop research skills to effectively gather information and verify terminology relevant to translation tasks
- Evaluate suitable electronic equipment, programs, and software to support translation tasks, considering factors such as functionality, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness
- Understand the importance of developing effective communication skills for interacting with clients, translation companies, and colleagues
- Understand the importance of maintaining good professional relationships with clients, translation companies and colleagues
- Implement administrative systems to ensure business requirements are met, including record-keeping, invoicing, and project management
Manage new translation assignments Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Establish the nature and purpose of the text to be translated
- Establish the context and setting in which the translated text will be used
- Evaluate a new translation assignment to determine its feasibility and requirements
- Plan a new translation assignment, including timelines, resources, and quality assurance measures
- Understand professional issues relating to accepting new translation assignments, including copyright, confidentiality, and ethical considerations
Manage new translation assignments Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Establish the nature and purpose of the text to be translated, considering the intended audience and context of use
- Evaluate the scope and requirements of a new translation assignment, considering factors such as subject matter, terminology, and deadlines
- Plan a translation assignment, outlining the necessary steps and resources required for successful completion
- Understand professional issues relating to accepting new translation assignments, including ethical considerations, confidentiality, and potential conflicts of interest
Support Sign Language Interpreting through Sight Translations of Routine Written Documents Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Produce accurate and fluent translations of routine written documents at sight into sign language, maintaining the original meaning and intent.
Translate written texts from one language into another Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out translation of written texts from one language into another, ensuring accuracy and fluency
- Evaluate own performance in translating written texts, identifying strengths and areas for improvement
- Address any concerns or queries arising from the text during the translation process, seeking clarification where necessary
Translate written texts from one language into another Real unit · Signature
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out accurate and fluent translation of written texts from one language into another, ensuring the meaning and context are preserved
- Evaluate own translation performance, identifying strengths and areas for improvement
- Address any concerns or queries arising from the text, seeking clarification where necessary to ensure accuracy
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Advanced Professional Translator
- Standard
Professional Translator - Manage New Translation Assignments
The credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Signature rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Develop your performance as a professional translatorDevelop your performance as a professional translatorMaintain skills and systems for managing translation tasksMaintain skills and systems for managing translation tasksManage new translation assignmentsManage new translation assignmentsSupport Sign Language Interpreting through Sight Translations of Routine Written DocumentsTranslate written texts from one language into another
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Support Sign Language Interpreting through Sight Translations of Routine Written Documents” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Maintain skills and systems for managing translation tasks” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Manage new translation assignments” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Develop your performance as a professional translator, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to evaluate their performance as professional translators by identifying strengths and weaknesses against industry standards. Learners will reflect on feedback and plan personal continuing professional development to enhance their translation skills.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Signature Level 6 Diploma in Sign Language Translation (RQF)
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Signature.
- Develop your performance as a professional translator
- Maintain skills and systems for managing translation tasks
- Manage new translation assignments
- Support Sign Language Interpreting through Sight Translations of Routine Written Documents
- Translate written texts from one language into another
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