PdF:AJ5205 Interpreting Skills - Course Information
AJ5205 Interpreting Skills
Faculty of Educationautumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Martin Němec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ5205/01: Sat 17. 10. 8:30–13:30 učebna 64, Sat 12. 12. 8:30–13:30 učebna 64, M. Němec
- Prerequisites
- As the seminar is practically oriented, it is necessary that students can easily understand English native speakers (B2-C1 level of English is essential) and are ready to react and try the job of an interpreter.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 34 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Interpreting Skills is practically oriented course which introduces some basic strategies needed for the job of an interpreter.
By the end of the year, students will be able to:
*consecutively interpret easy stretches of text
* demonstrate the simultaneous interpreting - Learning outcomes
- By the end of the year, students will be able to:
*consecutively interpret easy stretches of text
* demonstrate the simultaneous interpreting - Syllabus
- 1) Interpreting - introduction.
- 2)How to start?
- 3) Preparations of the material, segmentations, vocabulary.
- 4) Journalism - how to deal with the texts?
- 5) Technical texts interpreting.
- 6) Simultaneous interpreting.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- GILLIES, Andrew. Note-taking for consecutive interpreting : a short course. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2005, 239 s. ISBN 1900650827. info
- PÖCHHACKER, Franz. Introducing interpreting studies. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2004, xii, 252. ISBN 0415268877. info
- Teaching translation and interpreting : training, talent and experience. Edited by Cay Dollerup - Anne Loddegaard. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992, vii, 343. ISBN 1556194536. info
- ČEŇKOVÁ, Ivana. Teoretické aspekty simultánního tlumočení : na materiálu rusko-českém a česko-ruském. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988. info
- Problémy překladu a tlumočení : teorie - výuka - praxe. Edited by Milan Hrala - Ladislav Zadražil. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1981. info
- Teaching methods
- Practical presenting skills, group and individual feedback, group discussion
- Assessment methods
- Methods:
practical exercise
Credit Requirements:
- attendance
- practising interpreting skills
- final interpreting task - 4 minutes of simultaneous interpreting - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět bude realizován, pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin ve 2 blocích. - Teacher's information
- For online semester: Please note that students are requested to secure good internet connection in order to participate in online lessons and they must attend these meetings with both the sound and camera on.
- Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2020, recent)
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