Interpreting(1,2)

Aims

1. To familiarize students with necessary skills and requirements for basic interpreting in consecutive modes.

2. To enable the students to master words, expressions and sentence patterns related to a variety of subject matters such as cultural exchanges, science and technology, political and diplomatic issues etc.

3. To provide the students with a better understanding of China’s basic policies and domestic situation as well as knowledge of political, economic and cultural features of other countries.

Learning Outcomes

1. Learn the basic principles for oral interpreting, skills and coping tactics for basic consecutive interpreting, characteristics of oral interpreting of different subject matters including ways of interpreting subject-related words and expressions.

2. Learn China ’s basic policies and domestic situations, and history, politics, economy and culture of some leading countries in America and Europe .

Teaching and Learning

Lecture and presentations by the teacher will be integrated with students centered in-class activities including interpreting tasks and exercises, independent, group and pair work. A number of lectures will be held on the topics introduced in class.

Assessment

Basic Reading List

1.Dollerup, G & Lindegaard, A. Teaching Translation and Interpreting 2: Insights, aims, visions.[C].Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company ,1992

2.Gile, D . Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training [M]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

3.Jones, R . Conference Interpreting Explained [M]. Manchester: St.Jerome Publishing,1998

4.Lambert, S & Moser-Mercer, B. Bridging the Gap: Empirical research on? simultaneous interpretation [C]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994

5.鲍刚.口译理论概述 [M].旅游教育出版社1998

6．李逵六.口译-理论与实践 语言与交际 [M]. 外语教学与研究出版社1994

7．张维为.英汉同声传译 [M]. 中国对外出版公司1999

8．仲伟合.翻译研究：理论、技巧、教学 [C]. 华南理工大学出版社 2