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Both Australia and China have dynamic and growing translation and interpreting markets, well-established translation and interpreting professions and national translation and interpreting assessment schemes that provide accreditation to qualified translators and interpreters in order to ensure the quality of translators and interpreters entering the market. Their national assessment schemes, the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) tests in Australia and the China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters (CATTI) exhibit many similarities in terms of qualification designs, assessment structures, assessment items and assessment criteria, but at the same time also have their own unique features. This chapter is designed to discuss various aspects of NAATI and CATTI. It provides an overview of the translation and interpreting markets in Australia and China and the development of the NAATI and CATTI tests, including recent developments where relevant; a comparison of their assessment structures, assessment items and assessment criteria and pathways to NAATI and CATTI qualifications, respectively; and finally the implications of the two assessment schemes from the perspective of the translation and interpreting market.
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Ko, L. (2020). Translation and Interpreting Assessment Schemes: NAATI Versus CATTI. In: Lim, L., Li, D. (eds) Key Issues in Translation Studies in China. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5865-8_8
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