In the latest episode of Subject to Interpretation, host Maria Ceballos-Wallace dives into an insightful conversation with Natalya Mytareva, Executive Director of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI). They discuss the groundbreaking ETOE™ (English-to-English) exam, a unique assessment designed to evaluate cognitive interpreting abilities in English without requiring a second language.
Natalya shares the exam's structure, its relevance for certification, and how it sets the stage for future testing. She also sheds light on how the ETOE™ exam can influence other interpreting disciplines, making it a crucial tool for the future of interpreter certification.
Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHI, ICE-CCP, is Executive Director of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters, and a Commissioner of the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). In 2000-2013, Natalya was Communications Director at the International Institute of Akron, a refugee resettlement agency in Ohio. She developed and taught several courses for healthcare and court interpreters, with the focus on languages of lesser diffusion. She is a recipient of the 2023 Language Access Champion award from the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care. Natalya is a Russian interpreter/translator and started her career as instructor of interpretation/translation courses at Volgograd State University (Russia) in 1991. She holds a combined BA/MA degree from VSU in Philology & Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
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