Consolidation of Consecutive Interpreting Technique
Code: 44376 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4316479 Conference Interpreting | OT | 1 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Marta Arumi Ribas
- Email:
- Marta.Arumi@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
Teachers
- Maria Elizabeth Pearce
- Susagna Guardiola Criach
- Teresa Perramon Llado
Prerequisites
Students must take this module at the same time as or after taking the Interpreting Techniques and Introduction to Consecutive Interpreting modules.
Objectives and Contextualisation
To consolidate consecutive interpreting techniques.
To consolidate a personalised note-taking system.
Competences
- Apply note-taking techniques in communicative situations of medium-high complexity.
- Automate strategies for problem solving and decision making under pressure of time.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Comprehend competently on a formal and professional level in language C.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Speak competently on a formal and professional level in language A.
- Use consecutive interpreting techniques at a professional level.
- Work in a team, generating synergies in working environments involving different people to work in a coordinated and collaborative way.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply comprehension strategies in language C.
- Apply problem-solving strategies in consecutive interpreting.
- Automate strategies for problem solving and decision making under pressure of time.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Demonstrate a capacity for physical and mental resistance and stress management derived from the specific characteristics of consecutive interpreting.
- Draw up a personalised note-taking system.
- Identify the principles ruling note-taking techniques.
- Infer meaning from the context of the discourse.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Produce a coherent and cohesive discourse in Language A.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Understand shades of meaning in the discourse of language C.
- Understand the intention of the speaker.
- Use appropriate registers in language A.
- Use coherent, fluent discourse with the appropriate intonation in language A.
- Use language that is rich in vocabulary and rhetorical resources in language A.
- Work in a team, generating synergies in working environments involving different people to work in a coordinated and collaborative way.
Content
Methodological principles of consecutive interpreting at an intermediate-high level.
Personalising and perfecting a note-taking system.
Long consecutive interpreting exercises (duration of up to 6/7 minutes) on general and specialised subject matter in English, French and German.
Methodology
The following teaching methodologies are applied in this module (more details are given in the section on training activities):
Directed activities
Practical sessions in classrooms
Assessment and self-assessment activities
Seminars
Supervised and autonomous activities
Tutorials
Autonomous work
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Classroom practice | 33.5 | 1.34 | 1, 2, 16, 13, 14, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Material preparation and revision | 19 | 0.76 | 3, 10, 12, 4, 5, 18 |
| Tutorials | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 10, 12, 4, 5, 18 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous practice | 91.5 | 3.66 | 3, 10, 12, 4, 5, 18 |
Assessment
|
4/5-minute intermediate-level English-Spanish interpreting test on general subject matter |
45% |
|
4/5-minute intermediate-level French/German-Spanish interpreting test on general subject matter |
45% |
|
Note-taking in the English-Spanish combination |
5% |
|
Note-taking in the French/German-Spanish combination |
5% |
Students may retake or compensate for failed or missed assessment activities provided that those they have actually performed account for at least 66.6% (two thirds) of the final mark and that they have a weighted mark of 3.5 or over. Students may not retake assessment activities in which they are found to have engaged in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.).
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts, lecturers will inform students, in writing, of the procedure to follow to retake or compensate for assessment activities. Lecturers may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities.
In the case of retaking or compensating for an activity, the highest final mark that can be obtained is 5. If the assessment activities a student has performed account for 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Students who engage in misconduct in an assessment activity will receive a mark of 0 for the activity in question. Misconduct in more than one assessment activity will result in a final mark of 0 for the module.
NB: All information onassessment, assessment activities and their weighting is merely a guide. The lecturer responsible for the module will provide full information when teaching begins.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/5-minute intermediate-level English-Spanish interpreting test on general subject matter | 45% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 16, 3, 13, 14, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 4, 5, 18, 15, 17 |
| 4/5-minute intermediate-level French/German-Spanish interpreting test on general subject matter | 45% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 16, 3, 13, 14, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12, 4, 5, 18, 15, 17 |
| Note-taking in the English-Spanish combination | 5% | 1 | 0.04 | 7, 8 |
| Note-taking in the French/German-Spanish combination | 5% | 1 | 0.04 | 7, 8 |
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