Course aims:

applying principles and methods in aquiring a specialized terminology allowing to “produce” a proper transmation in due time
critical evalutation of the quality of the interpretation
elaborating the appropriate personal material with equivalent terminology for different domains

Course Entry Requirements:

Good knowledge of text translation in different fields of activity.

Course contents:

The main interest of the course resides in underlining the most important aspects in the activity of simultaneous and/or consecutive interpretation: methods, conference/different types of meetings organising, choice of interpreters, previous documentation, competences (languages for specific purposes, linguistic ambiguities, etc.), technical chracteristics, obligations and rights of interpreters. The practical exercices mainly have as work material France Info junior, with information from different fields of activty: politics, business, computer science, school, culture, pollution, agriculturel, law, etc.

Teaching methods:

Interactive methods

Learning outcomes:

• good to very good simultaneous and/or consecutive interpretation of an audio document of medium size; • good or very good written skills in reproducing the content of an audio document

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Simultaneous interpretation of a 5 minutes audio document at normal speed; a 5 minutes sight translation – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.

Recommended reading:

Gouadec, Daniel, Profession traducteur, La Maison du dictionnaire, Paris, 2002,
Lederer, Marianne, La traduction aujourd’hui. Le modèle interprétatif, Lettres Modernes Minard, Caen, 2006,
Chantreau, Alain Rey & Sophie, Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions, Dictionnaires Le Robert, Paris, 1994,