통역인 교육을 통한 국내 외국인 범죄수사 개선에 대한 제언

Educating interpreters of FL/L2 in Korea to improve foreigner crime investigation

The paper aims to make suggestions on improving the criminal investigation for foreigners in Korea through the education of interpreters. The study was conducted to identify the characteristics of falsehood in the speech of specific language speakers, which will be key contents of the teaching interpreters. For the study of this paper, the native speakers of Chinese, which currently represents the highest occupancy rate and crime rate in Korea, were selected as subjects, and the characteristics of their false speech were studied. The experiment found that the subjects showed more distinctive characteristics of falsehood when answering in Chinese (L1) than in English (L3) and Korean (L2), and that the linguistic features of native speakers were most noticeable in the increase in the height of their voices. Based on this, if legal and phonetic education is conducted on interpreters, we can expect to strengthen the status of interpreters as investigators’ assistants beyond simple interpretation in the course of the interrogation. Also, the authenticity of the foreign suspect’s answers can be revealed more accurately, and so a quicker and more efficient investigation of the foreign suspect can be expected.