수화통역사의 직업 만족도 조사

Abstract

This study was carried out for the purpose of finding out the feeling of their satisfaction actual condition of sign language interpreters. For this, I investigated 252 sign language interpreters licensed from 2001 to 2003 through an e-mail and mail survey and then I chose 90 answers to make a statistical analysis.The results of this research were as follows:A feeling of satisfaction of the interpreters licensed in the last three years ran as follows. Most of them answering these questions were satisfied below the average. but the full time interpreters and the interpreters attended actively supplementary instruction to improve their natural dispositions as a sign language interpreter and skills had highly a feeling of satisfaction.The average length of activity was about two to four years because there were many interpreters only for voluntary service. Since about a half of them hold two offices at the same time, they acted as a service to the public, and were restricted by time in many cases. Most of gatherings in local area did not practice, because there were not programs and public information. The rest of the meetings were for cultivating mutual friendship. A number of interpreters attended actively supplementary instruction to improve their natural dispositions as a sign language interpreter and skills to be an expert. It, however, was pointed out that they needed much cost and were not trained enough in professional skills. To make better this conditions, we should change the weak curriculum into the one related practical life and ensure an occupational stability and systematic educational system in order to activate interpreter's activity. The interpreting center should offer much information for the deaf and dumb.Since I made only licensed interpreters an object of this research and the rate of withdrawing was low, it was not enough to generalize the results.