LU Code : TR 301
Title : Consecutive Translation
Credit Hours/Points : 3
Level : 3
Prerequisites : TR 100, TR 101, TR 200, TR 201
The objective of the course is to enable students to
comprehend the content of orally delivered speeches, so that they are able to
transfer their ideas, idioms, terms and stylistic features from one language to
another by providing acceptable and convenient equivalents consecutively.
Note-taking techniques are developed and the speeches are graded so that you
are accustomed throughout the course to dealing with material of increasing
complexity and gradual segmental division. Actual practice of speeches is based
as far as possible on real-life situations. Speeches focus mainly on UN SDGs concerning equality, health issues, gender equality and special needs concerns.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
On completion of the course, for consecutive interpretation, students should:
- Indicate and account for the phenomena of oral
language communication and transfer and outline the techniques of transferring
language and terminology peculiar to different realms of human knowledge.
Skills:
On completion of the course, for consecutive interpretation, students should:
- Develop the intellectual abilities of working memory.
- Produce
an oral account in the target language after listening to the source text
consecutively.
- Develop the skill of analysing and resolving issues
related to translatability problems, linguistic competence, and thus
dexterously transfer source language segments from one language to another
consecutively.
- Comparing and contrasting structural
peculiarities of both English and Arabic languages in various fields.
- Carry out consecutive language transfer in a manageable limited
time span under stressful working conditions and professional constrains.
Learning Materials:
Discussion, supervised practice and self-access laboratory interpretation assignments. Passages on various topics will be used as a teaching material.
Assessment:
20% Mid-term Exam
30% Final-term Exam
50% Coursework: 30% for practical, 10% assignments and Portfolio, and 10 % quizzes and a small project
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