Simultaneous interpretation and translation (C language) - Russian - level 1 3200-M1-3TSYCR1

Student’s time investment:
30 class hours;
15 hrs preparation;
5 hrs final assignment or test preparation.
In sum: 50 hrs, corresponding to 2 ECTS.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to basic notions related to simultaneous interpreting. The semester starts with students learning about the basic characteristics of simultaneous interpreting and oprocesses occurring during bilingual language control and concurrent listening and speaking. They will learn how to work in booths and use the interpreter desks. Subsequently, students acquire simultaneous interpreting skills first due to simple exercises, and subsequently - by means of simple, short texts (up to 10 minut). Students acquire the skills of paraphrasing, rendering sense and logic, interpreting facts (including numbers and proper names), constructing logical target texts and speaking fluently. At the same time, the teacher provides for practical information about the interpreting profession and professional conduct, as well as basic information about working with clients and other interpreters. In the course of the semeter, the students polish their interpreting skills, at the same time enhancing their general knowledge and language skills, both in their foreign and native lanuguage.

If classroom learning is impossible, the workshop will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools, most probably Google Meet and others recommended by the University.
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Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

Introduction to simultaneous interpreting This course covers the following elements: 1. Introduction to interpreting modes and the characteristics of interpreting; 2. Introduction to methods, strategies and techniques of simultaneous interpreting from language B to language A (Polish); 3. Introduction to working in the booth: working with the microphone, interpreter desk, using „mute/cough”; switching from interpreter passive to active mode and vice versa; 4. Developing interpreting skills by means of interpreting gradually more difficult texts; 5. Developing skills such as attentional switching bilingual activation, ear-voice span management and anticipation; developing the interpreter’s working memory; 6. Enhancing the techniques of interpreting narrative and argumentative, circa 10-minute-long texts; 7. Enhancing the quality of interpreting based on the following criteria: accuracy, fluency, target text logic and correctness; 8. Ethics in interpreting.

Course coordinators

Józefina Piątkowska-Brzezińska

Learning outcomes

The student:

KNOWLEDGE
1. knows the types and modes of interpreting
2. knows basic skills, strategies and techniques of simultaneous interpreting

SKILLS
1. is capable of attentional switching
2. can manage the ear-voice span
3. can anticipate
4. can intrepret, in the simultaneous mode, narrative and argumentative texts related to current news, circa 10 minute-long, moderately advances in terms of vocabulary and phraseology

ATTITUDE
1. knows professional conduct and standards, i.e. how to behave in the booth and work in teams
2. knows the quality assessment criteria: accuracy – clarity - completeness - fluency
3. understands and observes the basic rules of preparing for an assignment and self-enhancement

Assessment criteria

- regular attendance, 80% of all classes as a minimum
- active participation in classes
- successful delivery of final exercise/s, assessment criteria:
- content: 60%
- language: 20%
- delivery: 20%

Bibliography

- Gile D. 1995b. Basic concepts and models for interpreter and translator training. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: J.Benjamins
- Gillies A. 2000/2004 Tłumaczenie ustne. Nowy poradnik dla studentów. Conference interpreting. Kraków: Tertium
- Jones R. 2002. Conference Interpreting Explained. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing.
- Kopczyński A. 1980. Conference Interpreting. Some Linguisitic and Communicative Problems. Poznań: Wyd.UAM
- Tryuk M. 2006. Przekład ustny środowiskowy. Warsaw: PWN
- Tryuk M. 2006 (red.) Teoria i dydaktyka przekładu konferencyjnego. Warszawa: Wyd. Takt.
- Tryuk M. 2007 Przekład ustny konferencyjny. Warszawa, PWN.
- Tryuk M. (red.)2010. O tłumaczach, prawnikach, lekarzach i urzędnikach. Teoria i praktyka przekładu środowiskowego w Polsce. Warsaw: Wyd. BelStudio
Ocena tłumaczenia ustnego/Evaluating an Interpreter’s Performance 1998. Łódź: OBiSP UŁ.
- Seleskovitch D., Lederer M. 2002. Pedagogie raisonnée de l’interprétation. Paris: Didier Erudition.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

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