Overview
Lecturer
Coralia Maria Telea
Seminar tutor
Coralia Maria Telea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
French
Erasmus language
English, French
Domain
Applied Modern Languages
Field of study
Translation and interpretation
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Interactive methods
Entry requirements
Good knowledge of text translation in different fields of activity.
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 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.
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
Assessment
Simultaneous interpretation of a 5 minutes audio document at normal speed; a 5 minutes sight translation – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.
Recommended reading
Profession traducteur
Gouadec, Daniel
La Maison du dictionnaire, Paris, 2002
La traduction aujourd’hui. Le modèle interprétatif
Lederer, Marianne
Lettres Modernes Minard, Caen, 2006
Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions
Chantreau, Alain Rey & Sophie
Dictionnaires Le Robert, Paris, 1994