PhD Student Profile: Jennifer Cranston

Jennifer Cranston

Education/Degrees

• M.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction – ESOL, George Mason University
• B.A., Deaf Education & Regular Elementary Education, Flagler College

Research Interests

• Visual phonics in educational interpreting
• Assessing deaf students’ readiness to use interpreters
• Turn-taking and processing time in educational interpreting
• Accuracy of interpretation compared with real-time captioning

Selected Presentations

• Cranston, J. L. (2011). Interpreting vs. transliterating: A practical comparison. Presentation given at Annual Silent Weekend Interpreter Conference. Orlando, Florida.
• Cranston, J. L. (2010). Back-translation: Was that right? Presentation given at the annual Potomac Chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (PCRID). Annapolis, Maryland.
• Cranston, J. L. (2007). ASL in action. Presentation given at Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference. Seattle, Washington.