Practice of Consecutive Interpreting

Facts

Duration: 1 semester

Period: Fall-Spring (7-8) Semester

Credits: 3 ECTS

Contact Hours: 72

Self-study: 72

Hours: 144

Main Objectives

The course is designed to teach students consecutive interpreting. It also puts insight into interpreter‘s competences, memory, brain abilities, concentration, reaction, professional vocabulary, precision vocabulary, meaning and concept relation. Within the course interpreting techniques, grammatical patterns, collocations, synonims, grammatical and lexical transformations and enlargement of learners‘ vocabularies are discussed.

Learning Outcomes

Formation of competence:

а) intercultural:

the ability to develop cultural and professional competence independently and to master techniques of interpreting;
the ability to get and use new knowledge independently.

b) professional:

the ability to operate basic terms and techniques in interpreting;
the ability to deal with words and their contextual meaning and usage, collocations, glossaries, precision vocabulary, interpreter‘s shorthand;
ability to interprete consecuently.

Professor

Yan R. Chemezov, Teacher, Department of English Philology

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Course annotation

Course unit code	45.03.02 Linguistics
Course unit title	Practice of Consecutive Translation
Name(s), surname(s) and title of lecturer(s)	Yan R. Chemezov Teacher, Department of English Philology
Level of course	Bachelor
Semester	7-8
ECTS credits	4
Working hours	Contact hours		72
	lectures
	seminars
	practical classes		72
	laboratory classes
	consultations
	*Independent work*		72
	Total		*144*
Work placement
Language of instruction	English
Prerequisites	Interpreting, Spoken and Written English.
Objectives of the course	Learning outcomes			A student’s assessments methods
The course is designed to teach students consecutive interpreting. It also puts insight into interpreter‘s competences, memory, brain abilities, concentration, reaction, professional vocabulary, precision vocabulary, meaning and concept relation. Within the course interpreting techniques, grammatical patterns, collocations, synonims, grammatical and lexical transformations and enlargement of learners‘ vocabularies are discussed.	Formation of competence: *а)intercultural:* -the ability to develop cultural and professional competence independently and to master techniques of interpreting; - the ability to get and use new knowledge independently. *b) professional:* - the ability to operate basic terms and techniques in interpreting; - the ability to deal with words and their contextual meaning and usage, collocations, glossaries, precision vocabulary, interpreter‘s shorthand; - ability to interprete consecuently.			Presentations, tests and an credit at the end of the course .
Teaching methods	Consecutive interpreting (video and audio materials), sight interpreting, group work, presentations, brainstorming.
Course unit content	Title				Lecturers (hours)	Self-study (hours)
	Fundamentals of Interpreting				2	2
	Interpreter’s shorthand				6	6
	Interpreting in sport				10	10
	Interpreting in innovation technologies				10	10
	Interpreting in economics				10	10
	Interpreting in politics				14	14
	Interpreting and natural sciences				10	10
	Interpreting and general english				10	10
					72	72
Assessment requirements		Student’s skills and knowledge are assessed at consecutive interpreting tasks, and credits.
Assessment criteria		The assessment of students‘ works is carried out by the following criteria: – compliance of the contents to the subject; – logically, linguistically, grammatically correct interpretations; – coherence and cohesion; – tasks are passed in time.
The composition of final accumulative mark		Final mark consists of: tasks – 50 %, group work and presentation – 20 %, credit – 30 %.
Course outline arranged by		Yan R. Chemezov Teacher Department of English Philology Faculty of Foreign Language

7-8

Contact hours

Total

Consecutive interpreting (video and audio materials), sight interpreting, group work, presentations, brainstorming.