Interpreter Assessment

The Tennessee Language Center can evaluate an interpreter’s skills through an interpreter assessment. We  can use standardized tests or create interpretation assessments in commonly requested languages customized to your organization’s needs. To learn more, please contact us at cipd@tennessee.edu or 615-741-7579.

General Interpreter Assessment

The Tennessee Language Center provides general exams for consecutive interpretation skills via ALTA Language Services. This exam requires the candidate to perform a consecutive interpretation between two speakers over the phone and is scored on linguistic components as well as overall accuracy according to ALTA’s protocol. As total fluency in the language pair is a basic requirement for interpretation, ALTA recommends first screening candidates in their non-native language using the Spoken (Oral) Proficiency Test. To schedule an exam, please contact us at cipd@Tennessee.edu.

See the list below for interpretation contexts and languages offered for these exams.

Medical	Medical (cont.)	Military	Legal	Behavioral Health	Diplomatic
Albanian	Korean	Albanian	Amharic	Spanish	Arabic MSA
Amharic	Nepali	Arabic Iraqi	Arabic MSA
Arabic MSA	Portuguese (Brazil)	Arabic Libyan	Arabic Lebanon
Arabic Egypt	Portuguese (Portugal)	Arabic Moroccan	Burmese
Arabic Iraq	Punjabi (Eastern)	Arabic Tunisian	Chinese Mandarin
Arabic Lebanon	Romanian	Arabic Yemeni	French
Arabic Morocco	Russian	Arabic MSA	German
Arabic Yemen	Somali	Dari	Haitian
Bosnian	Spanish	Farsi	Hausa
Burmese	Tagalog	French	Hindi
Chinese Cantonese	Telugu	Pashto	Hmong
Chinese Mandarin	Turkish	Russian	Korean
Dari	Ukrainian	Punjabi (Eastern)	Portuguese (Brazil)
Farsi	Urdu	Somali	Russian
French	Vietnamese	Spanish	Somali
Gujarati		Urdu	Spanish
Haitian		Uzbek	Tagalog
Hindi			Tigrinya
Hmong			Urdu
Japanese			Vietnamese
			Yoruba