| CODE | TTI1001 | ||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Interpreting and Professional Tools | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Translation, Terminology and Interpreting Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit provides students with opportunities to understand interpreting skills in community interpreting. Training in these skills will require a variety of exercises, such as content analysis, memory exercises, consecutive interpretation, sight translation and note-taking techniques. Students will explore speaker intent, contextual impact, message, meaning and cultural mediation. Study-Unit Aims: - To establish the interpreter鈥檚 role in cultural mediation; - To practice the skills involved in community interpreting; - To train students in communication skills required for community interpreting (appropriate terminology, optimal physical placement, information retrieval etc鈥�). Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - recognise sociolinguistic variables; - produce an equivalent message in the target language. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - be sensitive to communicative cultural differences; - recognise speaker goals and contextual factors involved in speech acts; - explain and discuss communication as a shared social process. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Angelelli, C. V., 2004. Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Communication. Edinburgh: Cambridge University Press. - Gilles A. (2007) Note-taking for consecutive interpreting, St Jerome. Supplementary Readings: - Quan, K. & Lynch, J., 2014. The High Costs of Language Barriers in Medical Malpractice, Berkeley: s.n. - Eynaud J. (2011) Interpreting Models and Strategies for Maltese Interpreters: A Coursebook on Interpreting Studies. Germany:Lambert Academic Publishing. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||
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