الكفايات اللازمة لمترجمي لغة الإشارة من وجهة نظر الصم و المترجمين في المملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

This study aims to identify the competencies necessary for sign language interpreters that should be taken into account when registering, training, classifying and employing them from the point of view of deaf individuals and translators in Saudi Arabia.

Data were obtained from (531) deaf persons and interpreters, of whom (398) are male and female deaf who are registered in the clubs and cultural centers in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, in addition to (133) male and female interpreters who are registered in the Saudi Committee for the Experts and Sign Language Interpreters in Saudi Arabia.

The results revealed that personal competences are the most important skills for sign language interpreters in Saudi Arabia.

There were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.01), for male and female deaf responses in (personal and professional competences) favoring female deaf, and in cognitive skills favoring male deaf.

There were also significant differences at the level of (0.05) in the responses of the deaf who have deafness in their families and deaf who have no deafness in their families, in (professional competences) favoring deaf who have deafness in their families.

And at the level (0.01) in (personal competences) favoring the deaf who have deafness in their families.